 | James Hain Friswell - Biography - 1874 - 370 pages
...and, lying on his back, stretch a thread, with small beads upon it, at arms' length, between his eyo and the stars, sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from him, in order to take their apparent distances from each other : then laying the thread upon paper,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 314 pages
...eye •the celestial bodies. "I used to stretch," he says, "a thread with small beads on it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads. My master," he adds, "... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1879 - 430 pages
...distances of the heavenly bodies. "I used," he said, " to stretch a thread with small beads on it, at arm's length between my eye and the stars ; sliding the...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, I marked the... | |
 | James Frederick Skinner Gordon - Banffshire (Scotland) - 1880 - 488 pages
...was James Glashan. I found him very kind and indulgent ; but 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 646 pages
...heavenly bodies. ' I used to stretch,' says he, ' a thread with small beads on it, at arm'slength, 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.' ' My master,' he adds,... | |
 | George Dawson - Sermons, English - 1882 - 392 pages
...you are * James Ferguson. " I used to stretch," says he, " a thread with small beads on it, at arm's length, between my eye and the stars, sliding the...their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads." — CRAIK'S " Pursuit... | |
 | England - 1883 - 830 pages
...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 from my eyes, in order to take their apparent distances from eаch other ; and then laying the thread down... | |
 | Humanities - 1911 - 400 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 beads upon it until they hid such and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distance from one another... | |
 | Artists - 1896 - 300 pages
...watching the stars. "I used," he writes, "to stretch a thread with small beads on it at arm's-length between my eye and the stars, sliding the beads upon...stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distance from one another, and then, laying the thread down on the paper, I marked the stars, thereon... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1897 - 392 pages
...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 from my eyes, in order to take their apparent distances from each other; and then laying the thread down on... | |
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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... 
