 | 1919 - 424 pągines
...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 pągines
...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... | |
 | 1866 - 400 pągines
...continually meeting me, with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are! Why didn't somebody teach mo the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always over head aud which I don't above half know to this day ? I love to prophesy that there will come a... | |
 | 1870 - 404 pągines
...and the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are. Why did'nt somebody...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 pągines
...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 pągines
...&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 pągines
...and the little winged and wingless neighbours that are continually meeting me with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are. Why didn't somebody...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 pągines
...to his. " For many years," he says, " it has been one of my constant regrets that no school master of mine had a knowledge of natural history so far,...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 - 408 pągines
...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... | |
 | 1872 - 456 pągines
...winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation which I cannot answer 1 Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens ? I love to prophecy that there will come a time when every schoolmaster will be strictly required... | |
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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? 
