 The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours — confound him, too Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small pieces!  Transactions. Session Sixth, 1855-56 - Page 162by Architectural Institute of Scotland - 1856 - 201 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...gods confound the man win) first found out How to distinguish hours ; confound him, too, Who first in this place set up a sun-dial, to cut And hack my days so wretchedly Into small portion*. When I was a boy, My belly was my eon-dial, — one more sure Truer, and more exact than... | |
 | William Laxton - 1858 - 522 pages
...anathematises the invention of dials: :rum day. BOĢ. t the le of "The gods confound the man who first funnel out How to distinguish hours ! confound him too Who in this place set up a non-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions. When I wad a boy My belly was... | |
 | Edward L. Clark - 1864 - 448 pages
...to) CHAPTER III HELIOPOLIS " The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours ! Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions The town 's so full of these confounded dials, The greatest part of its inhabitants, Shrunk up with... | |
 | Edward Lord Clark - 1864 - 378 pages
...to be on our way beyond the portico of Egypt, into the valley of the Nile. CHAPTER III HELIOPOLIS '* The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours ! Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions The... | |
 | 72 pages
...the invention : — " The gods destroy the man who first found out How to distinguish hours ! destroy him too Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut...wretchedly Into small portions ! When I was a boy, My stomach was my sun-dial ; one more sure, Truer, and more exact than any of them. This dial told me... | |
 | Mrs. Alfred Gatty - 1900 - 596 pages
...that the information they gave was noisily announced at stated intervals by a trumpeter or crier : " The gods confound the man who first found out How...him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To rub and hack my days so wretchedly Into small pieces ! When I was a boy, My belly was my sun-dial —... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1919 - 296 pages
...public sun-dial in Rome was constructed about 200 B. c., an event which the poet Plautus bewailed : Confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound them, too Who in this place set up a sun-dial To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions!... | |
 | Eviatar Zerubavel - 1985 - 228 pages
...sociotemporal regularity was noted as far back as two thousand years ago by the Roman poet Plautus: The gods confound the man who first found out How...sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small pieces! When I was a boy, My belly was my sun-dial — one more sure, Truer, and more exact than any... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 2000 - 474 pages
...measurement was not universally approved. The Roman poet Platus, in the second century BC, complained that The gods confound the man who first found out How...sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small pieces! When I was a boy, My belly was my sun-dial - one more sure, Truer, and more exact than any... | |
 | Ted Gioia - 2006 - 394 pages
...first found out how to distinguish hours," writes an ancient Roman author. "Confound him, too, who set up a sundial, to cut and hack my days so wretchedly into small pieces!" And though time-keeping technologies might change, the nature of work might change, even the... | |
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