Good afternoon, Gatty's book is available as a free download from Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/). Advanced searching on title contains "Book of sun-dials" gave five hists (http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Book%20of%20Sun-dials%20%29), of which four are Gatty's book (?different editions) and the fifth is a much earlier work with a title so long that it would cause this email to exceed the 50kb limit!
Downloading books scanned by Google is a bit tricky, and just clicking on the link "PDF (Google.com)" is useless. Click on the "HTTP" link at the bottom of the list, and then select the file ***.pdf. Searching on the reasonable alternative spellings (sundial, sun dial, sun-dial) and plurals give some interesting results that are well worth looking at. Cheers, John John Pickard [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: sasch stephens To: [email protected] ; sundial list Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 10:45 AM Subject: RE: Some quotable quotes on sundials Ye who make rhymes of sundials stand in good company! A good source of sundial sayings and mottoes is: The Book of Sun-dials by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1872. It includes chapters of mottoes, translations from Latin and related stories. One of my favorites: Make time, save time while time lasts, All time is no time, when time is past and: You must account at last for all your moments past And what I tell my daughter: Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Sasch Stephens
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