 It is a timepiece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day ; and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim, in the savannahs of the Venezuela, or in...  The Forest Sanctuary: And Other Poems - Página 98de Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1825 - 205 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1831 - 510 páginas
...in different seasons, the Cross of the South is erect or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other...exhibits to the naked eye an observation of time so essfly made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannahs of Venezuela, or in the desert... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - 1832 - 196 páginas
...in different seasons, the Cross of the south is erect, or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other...How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannas of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, ' Midnight is past, the Cross... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans, Reginald Heber - 1833 - 526 páginas
...Cross of the South is erect or inclined. Una time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutée a day, and no other group of stars exhibits to the...desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, " Midnight in past, the cross begins to bend !" How often the« word« reminded \a of that affecting scene where... | |
 | John Holland - 1835 - 374 páginas
...seasons, the Southern Cross is erect, or inclined. It is a time-piece, that advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day; and no other group of stars exhibits,...so easily made. How often have we heard our guides in the Savannas of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, say, ' Midnight is... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 páginas
...nearly four minutes a day ; and no other group ot stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an obser vation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim, in the savannas of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, ' Midnight is past, the cross... | |
 | William Adams - 1836 - 508 páginas
...the Cross of the south is erect, or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances very regular nearly four minutes a day ; and no other group of stars exhibits...How often have we heard our guides exclaim, in the savannas of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, " Midnight is past, the Cross... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - 1837 - 302 páginas
...Whnt constellation serves as a time-piece for l!ie northern hemisphere ?. time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other...naked eye, an observation of time so easily made." (374.) The stars are classified according to their apparent size. The largest or brightest are called... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 páginas
...nearly four minutes a day; and no other group ot stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an obser vatiou of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim, in the savannas of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, ' Midnight is past, the cross... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 páginas
...in different seasons, the Cross of the South is erect, or inclined. It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other...How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannas of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, " Midnight is past, the Cross... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 páginas
...nearly four minutes a day; and no other group ot stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an obser vation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim, in the savannas of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, ' Midnight is past, the cross... | |
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