 | England - 1883 - 854 pages
...Scot is still more picturesque. " In the evenings, when my work was over, I went into a field with a blanket about me — 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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1822 - 264 pages
...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 beads upon...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... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...in his account of his life, and referring to the period of his boyhood, " I went into a field with 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 beads upon it till they hid such and such... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...indulgent; but he soon observed, that in the evenings, when my work was over, I went into a field with 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 beads upon it till they hid such and such... | |
 | William Rogerson - 1828 - 482 pages
...in his account of his life, and referring to the period of his boyhood, " I went into a field with a 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 beads upon it till they ; hid such and... | |
 | First steps - Astronomy - 1828 - 456 pages
...very kind and indulgent; and he soon observed that when my work was 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 and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it... | |
 | George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...indulgent ; but he soon observed, that in the evenings, when my work was over, I went into a field with 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 beads upon it till they hid such and such... | |
 | 1835 - 444 pages
...very kind and indulgent; and he soon observed that when my work was over, I went into a field with a blanket about me, lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads upon it, at arms length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...own words will be most interesting — "I used," says he, " to stretch a thread with small beads on it, at arms-length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it, till they hid euch and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and then... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 556 pages
...indulgent; but he soon observed, that in the evenings, when my work was over, I went into a field with a blanket about me, lay down on my back, and stretched a thread with small beads unon it, at arms' length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such... | |
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... 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 the stars thereon by... 
