 | John Ruskin - 1879 - 276 pages
...constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics,...Cross of the South is erect, or inclined. It is a timepiece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day; and no other group of stars exhibits,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Drawing - 1879 - 282 pages
...when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropi cs or in the southern hemisphere. It has been observed...Cross of the South is erect, or inclined. It is a timepiece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day; and no other group of stars exhibits,... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 722 pages
...constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is familiar to every nation that lives beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere. It is known at what hour in the night, in different seasons, the southern cross is erect or inclined.... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Adventure and adventurers - 1881 - 372 pages
...moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to the people of every nation situated beyond the tropics or in the Southern Hemisphere....hour of the night, in different seasons, the cross is erect or inclined. It is a time-piece which advances very regularly four minutes a day, and no other... | |
 | Titbits - 1884 - 376 pages
...constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is familiar to every nation that lives beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere. It is known at what hour in the night in different seasons the Southern Cross is erect or inclined. It... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1885 - 620 pages
...which recalls the sign of the faith planted by their ancestors in the deserts of the New World ....... It has been observed at what hour of the night, in...Cross of the South is erect or inclined. . It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes iay, and no other group of stars exhibits... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 454 pages
...when it passes the meridian. This circumstanee is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropies, or in the Southern hemisphere. It has been observed...different seasons, the Cross of the South is erect or inelined. It is a time-piece that advanees very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other group... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Science - 1888 - 228 pages
...constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics...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 group of stars exhibits... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1888 - 876 pages
...that the constellation is almost vertical at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics, or in the southern hemisphere It is known at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the southern cross is erect, or inclined.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 486 pages
...constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to every nation that lives beyond the tropics,...Cross of the South is erect, or inclined. It is a timepiece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day ; and no other group of stars exhibits,... | |
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It has been observed at what hour of the night, 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 group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation... 
