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Title: Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
Subjects: Sundials Roses Rosicrucians
Publisher: New York London : Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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derers to that shore, chattering the timeof the day—for the suns shadow speaks in theirtongue as well as in Latin. I see Father Junipero andhis barefooted and cowled Franciscan friars patientlyteaching their trying converts — the Indians. I seebehind the wall the Mission garden with its wellsand cisterns, its dense Pepper trees, its Daturas andRoses; and Latin and Spanish, Asiatic, Indian, andYankee races all blend in the spirit of this useful,beautiful sun-dial. On page 70 is given an historical example of thesecond class, dials with two faces, set at the cornerof houses. These are on the house in Edinburghknown as John Knoxs house. On the corner ofthe house is carved a figure of the prophet Moses,kneeling and pointing with his right hand to a figureoverhead, — namely, the sun in glory, on which iscarved the name of God in three tongues. Beneath yo Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday this figure were two sun-dials supported on ironbrackets, which represented flames of fire. A good
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John Knoxs House, Edinburgh, Scotland. example of these corner dials is shown facing page72, a view of Mr. Thursbys house at Lower Harle- Classification of Sun-dials 71 stone, Northamptonshire. This is a charming Eng-lish home picture; the cheerful house, the creepingvines and flowers, the tame pea-hen, and the sun-dials,— why, even the printed words peacocks andsun-dials give a picture of English country life! Thehouse is about a hundred years old, and in 1891 thedials were nearly obliterated and the gnomons gone,but the dials have now been restored. The south-east dial is inscribed, the hour is at hand ; the southwest, WATCH AND PRAY. I have never seen in America a vertical dial ofthe third class, — namely, on a corbel, though thelatter forms a most effective piece of architecturaldecoration as well as a useful one. On Heriots hospital in Edinburgh are elevencorbel dials, the finest attached dials of this typein Scotland ; they are supported on carved brackets.Some of these brac

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