Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 23
... followed the party let go the rope and escaped , while the three Englishmen and Tairraz went to destruction . Tairraz screamed , but , like Englishmen , the others met their doom without a word of exclamation . At the bottom of the ...
... followed the party let go the rope and escaped , while the three Englishmen and Tairraz went to destruction . Tairraz screamed , but , like Englishmen , the others met their doom without a word of exclamation . At the bottom of the ...
Pagina 46
... followed . A single shot , as it were , had been fired across our bows ; but the ship's course was already on the point of Leing put about . • In an Expecting fully that they would not persevere 46 [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... followed . A single shot , as it were , had been fired across our bows ; but the ship's course was already on the point of Leing put about . • In an Expecting fully that they would not persevere 46 [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
Pagina 57
... followed , and due allowance ought to be made for the perfectly novel position in which the men found themselves . The awe of entire strange- ness is very powerful in some minds ; and to my companions the notion of spending a night at ...
... followed , and due allowance ought to be made for the perfectly novel position in which the men found themselves . The awe of entire strange- ness is very powerful in some minds ; and to my companions the notion of spending a night at ...
Pagina 60
... followed . Men's faces waxed green , roses faded from ladies ' cheeks ; while puzzled children yelled intermittently in the grasp of the demon which had newly taken possession of them . One rare pale maiden sat right in the line of the ...
... followed . Men's faces waxed green , roses faded from ladies ' cheeks ; while puzzled children yelled intermittently in the grasp of the demon which had newly taken possession of them . One rare pale maiden sat right in the line of the ...
Pagina 72
... followed by his guide , and all four of us reach the slope above the chasm . Its steepness was greater than that of a cathedral roof , while below us , and within a few yards of us , was a chasm into which it would be certain death to ...
... followed by his guide , and all four of us reach the slope above the chasm . Its steepness was greater than that of a cathedral roof , while below us , and within a few yards of us , was a chasm into which it would be certain death to ...
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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...