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 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
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 cross death dial erected dial face dial plate Dialling DOCET 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 lines inches inscribed inscription Isère John L'HEURE L'OMBRE last hour latitude Lewis Evans light Lord marble marked motto Musée Cluny Museum night Notizie Gnomoniche Nuremberg painted Paris parish passes pedestal pillar placed probably Queyras rays Roman Roman numerals round Savoy seen shadow shaft side SINE SOLI south wall specimen spectas stands stood sun-dial TEMPUS thee thou tower ULTIMA UMBRA Vallouise vertical dial Warwickshire window words Yorkshire
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Página 447 - WHEN Time, who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Página 414 - 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...
Página 204 - 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.
Página 380 - 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!
Página 249 - 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.
Página 238 - 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.
Página 207 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Página 418 - 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.
Página 290 - 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.
Página 248 - ... 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...