 | 1919 - 424 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). School Committee - 1868 - 508 sider
...neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation I cannot answer as things are. Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day? I love to prophesy that there will come a time, when not in Edinburgh only, but in all Scottish and... | |
 | 1870 - 404 sider
...that are continually meeting me with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are. Why did'nt somebody teach me the constellations too, and make...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... | |
 | 1869 - 878 sider
...that are continually meeting me with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are! Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day? I love to prophesy that there will come a time, when not in Edinburg only, but in all Scottish and... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1869 - 1192 sider
...neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation I cannot answer as things are. AVhy didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day? I love to prophesy that there will come a time, when not in Edinburgh only, but in all Scottish and... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education - 1869 - 340 sider
...neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation I can not answer, as things are. Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make...overhead, and which I don't half know to this day ? I love to prophesy that there will come a time when in all Scottish and European lands and colleges... | |
 | Edwin Dunkin - 1869 - 380 sider
...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... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, Richard McAllister Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1879 - 584 sider
...that are continually meeting me, with a salutation which I can not answer, as things are. Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make...which are always overhead, and which I don't half know ? I love to prophesy that there will come a time when, not in Edinburg only, but in all Scottish and... | |
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... had a knowledge of natural history, so far at least, as to have taught me the grasses that grow by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation I cannot answer as things are. 
