 | England - 1883 - 854 pages
...lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it at arm's length between my eyes and the stars, sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eyes, in order to take their apparent distances from each other ; and then laying the thread down on... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...a blanket about me, lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...their apparent distances from one another; and then laying the thread down upon a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Boys - 1822 - 520 pages
...blanket over me, lay down on my back, and stretched a small thread, with small beads upon it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars, sliding the...their apparent distances from one another : and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1822 - 264 pages
...blanket over me, lay down on my back, and stretched a small thread, with small beads upon it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars, sliding the...such and such stars from my eye, in order to take the apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper, 1 marked the... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...a blanket about me ; lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...their apparent distances from one another; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective... | |
 | First steps - Astronomy - 1828 - 456 pages
...over, I went into a field with a blanket about me ; lay down on my back, and stretched a thread vvitli small beads upon it, at arms length, between my eye...their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads according to their respective... | |
 | William Rogerson - 1828 - 482 pages
...blanket \ about me, lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it, Í at arm's length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...their apparent distances | from one another ; and then laying the thread down upon a paper, I marked the f stars thereon by the beads, according to their... | |
 | George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...a blanket about me; lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...heavenly bodies. " I used to stretch," says he, " a thread with small beads on it, at arms-length, between my eye and the stars; sliding the beads upon...their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads." " |VIy master," he adds,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1830 - 452 pages
...heavenly bodies. " I used to stretch," says he, " a thread with small beads on it, at arms-length, between my eye and the stars; sliding the beads upon...their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads." " My master," he adds,... | |
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Beads upon it, at arms' length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the Beads upon it till they hid such and such Stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the Thread down on a Paper, I marked... 
