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Old and New London
… Juvenal. The Privy Gardens and King Charles's curious Sun-dialsName changed to Whitehall GardensLady Hervey and Sir … of James I., in 1624. A large stone pedestal bore four dials at the four corners, and the great horizontal concave … belonging to geography, astronomy, and astrology, by the sun's shadow made visible to the eye." Among the pictures …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… and cut up wood etc. The cold weather broke up today. The sun at 12 o'clock was pretty warm and it continued thawing …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… but I have for an excuse, a bad headache and the burning sun. The view however from Fairlight I thought charming. I …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… object in going, was to see the annular eclipse of the sun, Peterboro being almost on the central line. I was in the cathedral at the time of the sun's greatest obscuration, or when the annular ring was …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… that my brain would have been dried up so fierce was the sun's heat. 6. Went to Morbey's, the frame makers, cut up … began no.4 large diagram etc. Nice day. Blue sky seen and sun shining pretty brightly. 20. Went to Boro Road Chapel in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and justly admired'. Carved on the buttress are two mass dials and a cross. A small 14th-century window of three …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… only the Case is Altered in High Road and Rising Sun in Harlesden Lane had been added to the Spotted Dog by …
William and Mary, 1691: An Act for Granting an Aid to Their Majesties of the Sum[m]e of Sixteene hundred fifty one thousand seven hundred and two pounds eighteen shillings towards the Carrying on a Vigorous Warre against France. [Chapter V. Rot. Parl, pt. 3.]
Statutes of the Realm