 | 1823 - 564 pagina’s
...' find it easy to escape a wetting. The dial is provided with several ' gnomons, calculated to show the corresponding hour at the chief « capital cities...of Europe; and also with a lens, so placed, that, dur* ing sunshine, the priming of a small cannon falls under its focus « just as the sun reaches the... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1824 - 570 pagina’s
...Bertrand's garden it laid out quite in the Dutch style, and, among other conceits, contains a dial ' provided with several gnomons, calculated to shew...meridian, when of course the cannon is discharged.' — Dahlias, Rhododendrons, Magnolias, Azaleas, &c. were in a healthy and vigorous condition; and the... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 pagina’s
...find it easy to escape a wetting. The dial is provided with several gnomons, calculated to show tile corresponding hour at the chief capital cities of...meridian, when of course the cannon is discharged. 252. The principal ornament of M. Bertrand"! villa consists in a piece of water, over which a bridge... | |
 | 1857 - 376 pagina’s
...very ingenious : it is provided with several gnomons, calculated to show the corresponding 198 199 hour at the chief capital cities of Europe ; and also...meridian, when, of course, the cannon is discharged. Madame de Stael observes that " Gardens in some parts of Germany are almost as beautiful as in England... | |
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... it is ten to one but the seat is so contrived as to sink under him ; if he enter the grotto, or approach the summerhouse, water is squirted from concealed or disguised fountains, and he does not find it easy to escape a wetting. The dial is provided... 