Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... fall back upon something earlier than my own birth . The forgotten associations of a far - gone ancestry are probably the most potent elements in the feeling . With characteristic pene- tration , Mr. Herbert Spencer has written of the ...
... fall back upon something earlier than my own birth . The forgotten associations of a far - gone ancestry are probably the most potent elements in the feeling . With characteristic pene- tration , Mr. Herbert Spencer has written of the ...
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... fall beyond the ridge . I had to work along the snow cautiously , squatting down so as to prevent the rock from pushing me too far out . Had I a fair ledge underneath I should have felt per- fectly at ease , but on the stability of the ...
... fall beyond the ridge . I had to work along the snow cautiously , squatting down so as to prevent the rock from pushing me too far out . Had I a fair ledge underneath I should have felt per- fectly at ease , but on the stability of the ...
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... to assure ourselves that we were on the exact track . We found there a pen- knife , a small magnetic compass , and many other remnants of the fall . We At the bottom of the snow - slope M. Curie 1860 ] 19 DISASTER ON THE COL DU GÉANT .
... to assure ourselves that we were on the exact track . We found there a pen- knife , a small magnetic compass , and many other remnants of the fall . We At the bottom of the snow - slope M. Curie 1860 ] 19 DISASTER ON THE COL DU GÉANT .
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... fall . Under the snow , at some distance up the slope , we found a fine new ice - axe , the property of one of the guides . We held on to the track up to the very summit of the col , and as I stood there and scanned the line of my ...
... fall . Under the snow , at some distance up the slope , we found a fine new ice - axe , the property of one of the guides . We held on to the track up to the very summit of the col , and as I stood there and scanned the line of my ...
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... fall - nothing could bring him to grief but an avalanche . ' 1 As Bennen and Tyndall were going up the Finsteraarhorn once upon a time , the work being severe , Bennen turned round and said to Tyndall , Ich fühle mich jetzt ganz wie der ...
... fall - nothing could bring him to grief but an avalanche . ' 1 As Bennen and Tyndall were going up the Finsteraarhorn once upon a time , the work being severe , Bennen turned round and said to Tyndall , Ich fühle mich jetzt ganz wie der ...
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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...