 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 424 pages
...Meanings ' has this : — "For almost all can repeat Thomas Carlyle's lament : ' Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in...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
...salutation that I cannot answer, as things are ! Why didn't somebody teacli me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry 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... | |
 | Education - 1866 - 400 pages
...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 - Education - 1867 - 504 pages
...salutation which I cannot answer, as things are ! Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are...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... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). School Committee - Boston (Mass.) - 1868 - 508 pages
...with a salutation I cannot answer as things are. Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens which are...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 pages
...salutation which I cannot answer, as things are. Why did'nt somebody teach me the constellations too, and make me at home in the 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... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education - Education - 1869 - 340 pages
...a salutation I can not answer, as things are. Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens which are...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 - Boston (Mass.) - 1869 - 1194 pages
...a salutation I cannot answer as things are. AVhy didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens which are...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
...salutation which I cannot answer, as things are! Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens, •which...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... | |
 | Edwin Dunkin - 1869 - 380 pages
...hosts above and around us? "Why did not somebody," says Carlyle, " teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are...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... | |
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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? 
