Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... feet high , and mainly a mass of bone ; his legs are out of proportion , longer than his trunk ; and he wears a short - tail coat , which augments the apparent dis- crepancy . Those massive levers were now plied with extraordinary ...
... feet high , and mainly a mass of bone ; his legs are out of proportion , longer than his trunk ; and he wears a short - tail coat , which augments the apparent dis- crepancy . Those massive levers were now plied with extraordinary ...
Pagina 12
... feet above it the rock bulged out , so that a stone dropped from its pro- tuberance would 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 ...
... feet above it the rock bulged out , so that a stone dropped from its pro- tuberance would 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 ...
Pagina 22
... feet , the other men were carried away in succes- sion , and in a moment the whole of them were rush- ing downwards . What efforts were made to check this fearful rush , at what point of the descent the two guides relinquished the rope ...
... feet , the other men were carried away in succes- sion , and in a moment the whole of them were rush- ing downwards . What efforts were made to check this fearful rush , at what point of the descent the two guides relinquished the rope ...
Pagina 24
... feet upon such loose snow , its granules are made to unite so as to afford a secure footing ; but when a man's body , presenting a large surface , is thrown prostrate upon a slope covered with such snow , the granules act like friction ...
... feet upon such loose snow , its granules are made to unite so as to afford a secure footing ; but when a man's body , presenting a large surface , is thrown prostrate upon a slope covered with such snow , the granules act like friction ...
Pagina 37
... feet slip from the steps , turn in a moment on your face , and dig in hard with alpenstock in both hands under your body ; by this means you will stop yourself if it is possible . Once on your back , it is all over , unless others can ...
... feet slip from the steps , turn in a moment on your face , and dig in hard with alpenstock in both hands under your body ; by this means you will stop yourself if it is possible . Once on your back , it is all over , unless others can ...
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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...