 | Popular educator - 1860 - 424 pages
...ecliptic lying like a broad highway across the flrmament, and the planets making their wnj1 in parts like the narrow ruts made by cart wheels, sometimes on...crossing the road at small angles, but never going fiir from eilhei1 siile of it. His circumstances were now greatly improved by his artistic labours;... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 552 pages
...the map, and comparing these with the stariy heaven, I was so impressed as sometimes to imagine that I saw the ecliptic in the heavens, among the stars,...of the planets to resemble the narrow ruts made by cart-wheels, sometimes on one side of a plain road, and sometimes on the other — crossing the road... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1867 - 534 pages
...that map, and comparing these with the starry heaven, I was so impressed as sometimes to imagine that I saw the ecliptic in the heavens, among the stars,...of the planets to resemble the narrow ruts made by cart-wheels, sometimes on one side of the plain road, and sometimes on the other, crossing the road... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1870 - 550 pages
...that map, and comparing these with the starry heaven, I was so impressed as sometimes to imagine that I saw the ecliptic in the heavens, among the stars,...of the planets to resemble the narrow ruts made by cart-wheels, sometimes ou one side of the plain road, and sometimes on the other, crossing the road... | |
 | James Frederick Skinner Gordon - Banffshire (Scotland) - 1880 - 488 pages
...the Starry Heaven, I was so impress'd as sometimes to imagine that I saw the Ecliptic in the Heaven among the Stars, like a broad circular Road for the...of the Planets to resemble the narrow Ruts made by Cart-wheels, sometimes on one side of a plain Road and sometimes on the other, crossing the Road at... | |
 | England - 1883 - 830 pages
...in the same absorbed and aimless way. "I was so impressed," he says, " as sometimes to imagine that I saw the ecliptic in the heavens among the stars,...ruts made by cart wheels, sometimes on one side of the plain road and sometimes on the other, crossing the road at small angles, but never going far from... | |
 | Scotland - 1883 - 826 pages
...in the same absorbed and aimless way. "I was so impressed," he says, "as sometimes to imagine that I saw the ecliptic in the heavens among the stars,...road for the sun's apparent course, and fancied the path of the planets to resemble the narrow ruts made by cart wheels, sometimes on one side of the plain... | |
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... sometimes on one side of a plain road and sometimes on the* other, crossing the road at small angles, but never going far from either side of it. 
