Humane industry, or, A history of most manual arts deducing the original, progress, and improvement of them : furnished with variety of instances and examples, shewing forth the excellency of humane wit.
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- Humane industry, or, A history of most manual arts deducing the original, progress, and improvement of them : furnished with variety of instances and examples, shewing forth the excellency of humane wit.
- Author
- Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
- 1661.
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- Inventions -- Early works to 1800.
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"Humane industry, or, A history of most manual arts deducing the original, progress, and improvement of them : furnished with variety of instances and examples, shewing forth the excellency of humane wit." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55564.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
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To the READERS.
Gentlemen,
THough this Curious Piece you are here presented with, needs neither Preface nor Apologie for its pub∣lication, yet I perceive you are now grown to that delicacy or rather state in your Diet, you will not eat with∣out a Taster. Give me leave therefore to acquaint you, That those to whose censure I permitted this Book, before I sent it to the Press, (and in whose Judge∣ment I have some reason to confide) have assured me it hath in it those two Graces of Attraction, Novelty and Excellency in its kind; That the Title (which is a fault you may the more easily pardon, because not often committed) does modestly vail many perfections in the Work it self, in which you have several curious remarkes on Musique, Limning, and other Noble Arts, as well as those that are properly ••ermed Manual; and those too so hand∣••omly treated of, with that excellency of Wit, that fair abundance and variety of
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judicious reading, that roundness, strength, and dignity of Stile, that you will imagine your selves even amongst the Mechanique Arts, to be conversant in the Liberal. The meanest things are en∣nobled here by the Expression; and all our Author touches he turns to Gold: So that for what concerns my self, I may confidently affirm, I have in the publica∣tion of this Treatise, perform'd an ac∣ceptable service to all ingenuous persons: And for the Author, I may adventure to say, He hath by this Work particularly honoured that Art of which he gives you so handsome an account; I mean, The Invention of PRINTING.