 | 1919 - 424 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1867 - 504 pages
...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...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 Scottbh and... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1867 - 490 pages
...wayside, and the little ' winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me, with a,salutation which I cannot answer, as things are ! Why didn't...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... | |
 | 1870 - 404 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). School Committee - 1868 - 508 pages
...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? I love to prophesy that there will come a time, when not in Edinburgh only, but in all Scottish and... | |
 | 1869 - 878 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education - 1869 - 340 pages
...the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation I can not answer, as things are. Why didn't somebody teach me...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... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1869 - 1192 pages
...wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation I cannot answer as things are. AVhy didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too,...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... | |
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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... 
