Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 37
... fact . I do not recollect a slip or stumble of consequence made by any one of us . Soon the slope lessens for a while , but in front a wall of snow stretches steeply upwards to a gap , which we have to reach , in a kind of recess ...
... fact . I do not recollect a slip or stumble of consequence made by any one of us . Soon the slope lessens for a while , but in front a wall of snow stretches steeply upwards to a gap , which we have to reach , in a kind of recess ...
Pagina 47
... fact , Bennen had at length turned , and said to Tyndall , ' Ich denke die Zeit ist zu kurz . ' I was glad that he had gone on as long as he chose , and not been turned back on my responsibility . They had found one part of this last ...
... fact , Bennen had at length turned , and said to Tyndall , ' Ich denke die Zeit ist zu kurz . ' I was glad that he had gone on as long as he chose , and not been turned back on my responsibility . They had found one part of this last ...
Pagina 65
... fact is also exhibited in the deportment of a water- jet . If the surface of water into which the jet falls intersect its limpid portion , the jet enters silently , and no bubbles . are produced . If the surface cut the turbid portion ...
... fact is also exhibited in the deportment of a water- jet . If the surface of water into which the jet falls intersect its limpid portion , the jet enters silently , and no bubbles . are produced . If the surface cut the turbid portion ...
Pagina 67
... fact , the quantity of fact necessary to enable them to divine the law being a measure of individual genius , and not a test of philosophic system.1 The level plain of Hof lies above the mound of the Kirchet ; how was this flat formed ...
... fact , the quantity of fact necessary to enable them to divine the law being a measure of individual genius , and not a test of philosophic system.1 The level plain of Hof lies above the mound of the Kirchet ; how was this flat formed ...
Pagina 84
... fact , aqueous vapour is without a parallel in these particulars ; it is not only the lightest of all vapours , in the common acceptation of that term , but the lightest of all gases except hydrogen and ammonia . To this circum- stance ...
... fact , aqueous vapour is without a parallel in these particulars ; it is not only the lightest of all vapours , in the common acceptation of that term , but the lightest of all gases except hydrogen and ammonia . To this circum- stance ...
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Æggischhorn afterwards Aletsch glacier Aletschhorn Alps appearance arête ascent atmosphere avalanche barrier base beautiful Bel Alp Bennen blue bottom Breuil Carrel chasm cliff climbed climber clouds Col du Géant colour companion couloir crags crevasses crossed dark deep descended erosion fall feet Finsteraarhorn fissures foot formed freezing frozen Glace Glacier du Géant gorge green Grindelwald halted heat heaven heights Helmholtz Jungfrau lake Lauener ledge length light liquid looked mass Matterhorn melted Mer de Glace Monte Rosa moraine morning Morteratsch Morteratsch glacier motion mould mountain névé night observed passed peak pieces of ice Pontresina portion precipice pressure rays reached regelation rendered Rhone ridge river rocks rope round seemed séracs shadow side slope snow snow-field soon steep stones summit surface temperature theory thought turned Tyndall Val Tournanche valley vapour vertical weather Weisshorn wind Zermatt
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Pagina 460 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Pagina 292 - Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force; for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any definition which omits life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue.
Pagina 190 - Ever young, ever mighty — with the vigor of a thousand worlds still within him — the real sculptor was even then climbing up the eastern sky. It was he who raised aloft the waters which cut out these ravines; it was he who planted the glaciers on the...
Pagina 291 - I tried to look at this universal cloud, containing within itself the prediction of all that has since occurred ; I tried to imagine it as the seat of those forces whose action was to issue in solar and stellar systems, and all that they involve. Did that formless fog contain potentially the sadness with which I regarded 458 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. the Matterhorn ? Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home...