 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...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 from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another; and then having a candle... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Boys - 1822 - 520 pages
...was over, I went into the field with a blanket over me, lay down on my back, and stretched a small thread, with small beads upon it, at arm's length,...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
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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... 
