So that it is manifest a public company was intended to be established in 1663-4, to extend operations with the engine then actually raising water at Vauxhall.
II.
LECTURE
DELIVERED ON THE 5th NOVEMBER, 1868:
BEING THE FIRST OR INAUGURAL LECTURE
OF THE
FREE LECTURES,
AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE, SYDENHAM,
ON
CHIMERAS OF SCIENCE:
ASTROLOGY, ALCHEMY,
SQUARING THE CIRCLE,
PERPETUUM MOBILE,
ETC.
With Illustrative Diagrams.
AND RE-DELIVERED AT THE
BIRKBECK LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION,
17th February, 1869.
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
But drinking largely sobers us again."—Pope.