| James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...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 having a candle by me, and laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads,... | |
| England - 1883 - 854 pages
...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 a paper, I marked...to their respective positions, having a candle by me." There could not be a prettier picture. The boy, according to his own dates, would be fourteen... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - Boys - 1822 - 520 pages
...at arm's 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...to their respective positions, having a candle by me. My waster at first laughed at me ; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to... | |
| 1843 - 684 pages
...arm's 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...from one another; and then laying the thread down upon a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective positions, having... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1822 - 264 pages
...stars, sliding the beads upon it till they hid 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 stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective positions, having a candle by... | |
| Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...arm's 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...to their respective positions, having a candle by me. My master at first laughed at me ; but, when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to... | |
| First steps - Astronomy - 1828 - 456 pages
...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...to their respective positions, having a candle by me. My master at first laughed at me, but when I explained my meaning to him he encouraged me to go... | |
| William Rogerson - 1828 - 482 pages
...arm's 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...from one another ; and then laying the thread down upon a paper, I marked the f stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective positions, having... | |
| George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...arm's 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...to their respective positions, having a candle by me. My master at first laughed at me ; but, •when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...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...a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads." " |VIy master," he adds, "at first laughed at me; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged... | |
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