. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Grace Church, and Dial, Merchantsville, N. J. a simple modern one such as thison Grace Church, Merchants-ville, New Jersey, adds muchto the beauty of a church A vertical dial is, in one respect,ni much better fitted for a publicbuilding than a horizontal dial,for the latter through careless or mischievous hand-ling often becomes so shaken as to be useless as atimekeeper. A fine horizontal dial, with an unusualand beautiful gnomon, shaped like an angels wi
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Grace Church, and Dial, Merchantsville, N. J. a simple modern one such as thison Grace Church, Merchants-ville, New Jersey, adds muchto the beauty of a church A vertical dial is, in one respect,ni much better fitted for a publicbuilding than a horizontal dial,for the latter through careless or mischievous hand-ling often becomes so shaken as to be useless as atimekeeper. A fine horizontal dial, with an unusualand beautiful gnomon, shaped like an angels wing,. 64 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday was set but a few years ago as a memorial of a sonto his mother, in the churchyard of All SaintsChurch, Worcester, Massachusetts. Even thisfirmly set and carefully made bronze dial-face hasbeen pulled and twisted by boyish visitors to theracking of the gnomon. A vertical wall-dial wouldhave been out of mischief On those interesting old buildings — moot-halls— are found some of the most ancient dials. Amoot-hall was a building with a room for publicdebate or a court, a town-hall. In early Englishhistory we find that a moot or meeting was con-stantly being held, and a court formed which hadspecial powers. A town-moot was a meeting of thetown; there was also the hundred-moot, a meetingof the hundred; and a folk-moot, a muster of allthe people far and wide. The form of holding thecourt was the same in all ; the priests proclaimedsilence, appointed speakers on either side of thecontroversy who told their tales, while groups offreemen assented or diss
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