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Identifier: sundialsrosesofy00earl (find matches)
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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Washington Sun-dial. still retained in old English families; among them are the Stafford knot and the Pelham buckle. The introduction of a coat-of-arms or crest upon a dial gives it at once an emblematic value, and still more, a personal value. On this page is shown an ancient dial-face, which is of much interest to all patriotic Americans, because N 178 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday it bears a dated Washington coat-of-arms, which is believed to have furnished the notion of our national
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Ancient Cross at Great Brington, Northamptonshire. Stars and Stripes/ This dial was found at The Washington House, Little Brington, Northamptonshire, England. It is a circular slab of sandstone The Sun-dial as an Emblem 179 sixteen inches in diameter. The letters R. W. can be dimly seen. These were probably the initials of Robert Washington. On page 178 is the old cross just outside the churchyard at Great Brington. This may once have held a dial. Its date is earlier than 1400. The ancestors of George Washington must have passed close to this cross every time theyattended church. In the yard of the rectory of this Great Brington church stands the dial shown on page 181; this is at the home of A. L. Y. Morley, Esq.,the faithful antiquary who has given me the many sun-dials from Northamptonshire which are shown in this book. The motto on his dial is most quaint. ** Haste ! oh Haste ! Thou Sluggard, Haste !The Present is already past. It was natural that in the highest forms of Em-blem making and

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