TO THE CENTURY. 365 



&quot; Dec. Whitehall. Vol. 46. No. 49. Warrant for a 

 grant to Sir Sam. Morland of the sole making of 

 an Engine invented by him for raising water in 

 mines or pits, draining marshes, or supplying 

 buildings with water.&quot; 



The annexed reprinted title page is a facsimile for 

 size and letter-press within the gothic frame, employed 

 to enlarge it. The smallness of the work was by no 

 means unusual, indeed the first edition, in the British 

 Museum, is bound in a volume uniform with the dis 

 courses of Sir William Petty, and of Dr. Grew, before 

 the Royal Society, in 1674, issued by its own printer. 

 Although more than ten years later the quaint style 

 reminds one of the Dedications to the &quot; Century/ as 

 when Sir William says he was commanded to print his 

 discourse &quot; Because, as drapers cut patterns of their 

 whole cloth out of an end, not because the end is better 

 than the rest, but because it may be best spared ; so (I 

 suppose) the Society are content, that this exercise pass 

 for a sample, pro tanto, of what they are doing. 7 And 

 of his second part he observes that it is &quot; To excite the 

 world to the study of a little Mathematics, by showing 

 the use of Duplicate Proportions in some of the most 

 weighty of human affairs, which notion a child of 12 

 years* old may learn in an hour.&quot; Lastly, the Epistle 

 Dedicatory informs us that : &quot; Falsity, disproportion, 

 and inconsistence cannot be rectified by any sermoci- 

 nations, though made all of figurate and measured 

 periods, pronounced in tune and cadence, through the 

 most advantageous organs ; much less by grandiosonous 

 or euphonical nonsense farded with formality ; no more 



* The Marquis, in the 19th article of the &quot; Century,&quot; twice alludes to &quot;acMd ; 

 and patenting his invention, which applied to Coaches, he introduces the expres 

 sion in the 3rd article of his patent of 1661 : &quot; a child of six years old may secure 

 roin danger all in the coach,&quot; and &quot; the child being able&quot; to loosen the horses. 



