 | James Ferguson - 1814 - 420 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 having a candle by me, and laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads,... | |
 | 1883 - 854 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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 520 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...their respective positions, having a candle by me. My waster at first laughed at me ; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged me to go on ;... | |
 | 1843 - 684 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...from one another; and then laying the thread down upon a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective positions, having... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 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... | |
 | William Rogerson - 1828 - 482 pages
...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...from one another ; and then laying the thread down upon a paper, I marked the f stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective positions, having... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 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...a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads." " My master," he adds, "at first laughed at me; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 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...a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads." " |VIy master," he adds, "at first laughed at me; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged... | |
 | 1832 - 510 pages
...with small beads on it, at arms length, between my eye and the stars ; VOL. III.— April, 1832. 15 sliding the beads upon it, till they hid such and...a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads." " My master," he adds, " at first laughed at me ; but when I explained my meaning to him, he encouraged... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 336 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...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 at... | |
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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 stars from my eye, in order to take... 
