The Book of Sun-dials: Originally Compiled by the Late Mrs. Alfred Gatty; Now Enl. and Re-edited by H. K. F. Eden and Eleanor LloydG. Bell, 1900 - 529 pàgines |
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The Book of Sun-dials: Originally Compiled by the Late Mrs. Alfred Gatty ... Mrs. Alfred Gatty Visualització completa - 1900 |
The Book of Sun-dials: Originally Compiled by the Late Mrs. Alfred Gatty ... Mrs. Alfred Gatty Visualització completa - 1900 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Abriès ancient angle art of dialling Basses Alpes bears belonged block brass Briançon building canonical hours carved Castle centre Château church of St churchyard circle circular clock compass Corpus Christi College cross death dial erected dial face dial plate Dialling doth engraved fecit feet figure formerly four FUGIT garden Given in Notizie Gloucestershire gnomon Greek Hall Hautes Alpes HEURE hole HORA HORAM horizontal dial hour flies hour lines inches inscribed inscription Isère John L'HEURE L'OMBRE last hour latitude Lewis Evans light Lord marble marked motto Museum night Notizie Gnomoniche painted Paris parish passes pedestal pillar placed probably Queyras rays Roman Roman numerals round Savoy seen shade shadow shaft side SINE SOLI south wall specimen stands stood sun-dial TEMPUS thee thou tower ULTIMA UMBRA Vallouise vertical dial Warwickshire window words Yorkshire
Passatges populars
Pàgina 469 - WHEN Time, who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Pàgina 216 - If a man die, shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Pàgina 434 - God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things. One foot he centred, and the other turned Round through the vast profundity obscure : And said, " Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world...
Pàgina 208 - O temps, suspends ton vol ! et vous, heures propices Suspendez votre cours ! Laissez-nous savourer les rapides délices Des plus beaux de nos jours ! " Assez de malheureux ici-bas vous implorent : Coulez, coulez pour eux ; Prenez avec leurs jours les soins qui les dévorent; Oubliez les heureux.
Pàgina 402 - O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! Somewhere, surely, afar, In the sounding labour-house vast Of being, is practised that strength, Zealous, beneficent, firm!
Pàgina 260 - For occasion, as it is in the common verse, turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken : or at least turneth the handle of the bottle first to be received, and after the belly, which is hard to clasp.
Pàgina 242 - For in his time the law did receive so sudden a perfection, that sir Matthew Hale does not scruple to affirm ', that more was done in the first thirteen years of his reign to settle and establish the distributive justice of the kingdom, than in all the ages since that time put together.
Pàgina 438 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Pàgina 312 - LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him ! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him ! 4 Man is like to vanity : his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Pàgina 252 - ... it is with the deepest regret that I recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance ; and...