 | 1919 - 424 páginas
...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 always overhead, and which I don 't half know to this day ! ' " Several other works on fistronomy have copied the lament, but much... | |
 | Museum and English journal of education - 1866 - 492 páginas
...continually meeting me, with a salutation that I cannot answer, as things are ! Why didn't somebody teacli me the constellations, too, and make me at home in...heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't above half know to this day? I love to prophesy that there will come a time, when not in Edinburgh... | |
 | 1870 - 404 páginas
...govern the preservation and germination of seeds. — Gardener's Monthly. STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY. — "For many years it has been one of my constant regrets...starry heavens which are always overhead, and which 1 don't half know to this day? I love to prophesy that there will come a time when, not in Edinburgh... | |
 | Edwin Dunkin - 1869 - 380 páginas
...wisdom as displayed among the starry hosts above and around us? "Why did not somebody," says Carlyle, " teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day ? " Now, it has been the earnest desire of the author to be the "somebody" of Carlyle, and if his very... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 694 páginas
...&c. WM. BLACKWOOD AND SONS, Edinburgh and London. "Why did not iDtnebody 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 CARL v LE. THE MIDNIGHT SKY: Familiar Notes on the Stars and Planets. By EDWIN DUNKIN, of... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1871 - 362 páginas
...have taught me the grasses that grow by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbours that are continually meeting me with a salutation...heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't above halfknow to this day? I love to prophesy that there will come a time, when not in Edinburgh only,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1872 - 1252 páginas
...wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation I cannot answer, as things are. Why didn't somebody...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day ? " With teachers properly trained for their work, with better methods and a more systematic order... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 410 páginas
...salutation that I cannot answer, as things are ! Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, loo, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?" THE LETTER Q. Q is the seventeenth letter and thirteenth consonant of our alphabet, but one not to... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 128 páginas
...Why did not somebody teach me the Constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, wnich are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day ? ' CARLYLE. SECOND IEI3XTT.O 3ST. LONDON : LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1872. All riJhts rcfi,rred. /HARVAku... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1873 - 834 páginas
...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 ? But there will come a day when, in all Scottish towns and villages, the schoolmasters will be strictly... | |
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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... 
