 | Theology - 1869 - 476 pages
...a farmer, who was very kind to him ; and, as he informs us, he soon observed that "in the evenings, when my work was over, I went into a field with a...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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Men - 1869 - 324 pages
...the 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 a thread down on the paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads. My master at first laughed... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 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...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 the beads,... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1870 - 550 pages
...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 Thy humble lot; nor (lowery ineail, nor play, Nor sleep, beguilM thee from the beauteous scene ; Nor... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 276 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 198 pages
...night-watchings, he says, " I used to lie on a field with a blanket about me on my back, and then I would stretch a thread with small beads upon it at arms' length...their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying a thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads according to their respective... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...went into a field with a blanket about me, lay down on my back, and stretched a thread ivith-small beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from...take their apparent distances from one another; and thus, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads according to their... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1872 - 198 pages
...' I used to stretch,' he says, ' a thread with small beads upon it at arm's length between my eyes and the stars, sliding the beads upon it till they...stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distance from one another, and then, laying the thread upon a piece of paper, I marked the stars thereon... | |
 | William Chambers - Biography - 1873 - 326 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
