 | Anna Botsford Comstock - 1939 - 916 דפים
...May 7, 1910 Lick Observatory THE STORY OF THE STARS Why did not somebody teach me the constellations and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day. — THOMAS CARLYLE For many reasons aside from the mere knowledge acquired, children should be taught... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 1997 - 510 דפים
...Astronomy with the Naked Eye (p. 125) Carlyle, Thomas Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day? Quoted by Richard Hinckley Allen in Star Names (p. v) 49 Coatsworth, Elizabeth Sweet as violets to... | |
 | 1873 - 744 דפים
...knowledge of Natural History, so far, at least, as to have taught the little winged and wingless neighbours that are continually meeting me with a salutation...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day Î But there will come a day when. in all Scottish towns and villages, the schoolmasters will be strictly... | |
 | Southern Educational Association - 1901 - 392 דפים
...grasses that grow by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbors that constantly meet me in a salutation which I cannot answer as things are....overhead, and which I don't half know to this day." This would be far too much work if it were done, as might seem, for the simple purpose of interesting... | |
 | 1880 - 538 דפים
...neighbours that are continually meeting me with a salutation that I cannot answer as things are. Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day ? — Carlyle. ONLY HALF A HERO. A TALE OF THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR. BY CAVE NORTH. CHAPTER XX. Thus,... | |
 | 1894 - 1440 דפים
...by help of tbem may find, with a minimum of trouble, the star he seeks. . . . Why did not Homebody teach me the constellations too, and make me at home...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day ? ' MILLER, W. HAIO. Great Best-Giver, The. With a Portrait of the Author. Crown 8vo. ... 26 Life's... | |
 | Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1910 - 1302 דפים
...three-cornered and sweet and very " good to eat." STAR STUDY. " Why did not somebody teach me the constellations and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?" THOMAS CARLYLE. For many reasons aside from the mere knowledge acquired, children should be taught... | |
 | 1919 - 528 דפים
..."For almost all can repeat Thomas Carlyle's lament: 'Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day ! ' " Several other works on r.stronomy have copied the lament, but much f^tudy of Froude and other... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - 1886 - 532 דפים
...acumen. Carlyle is quoted as having said somewhere : ' Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day ?' That was my feeling the other morning. With a hand trained for telescopic and other instrumental... | |
 | 1883 - 634 דפים
...outlines appear to the unaided eye. " Why (says Carty) did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens which are...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day ?" Their return to the same places in the sky is looked upon by those who have learned to recognise... | |
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Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day... 
