Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... force to me . Adding to these inherited feelings the pleasurable present exercise of Mr. Bain's muscular sense , ' I obtain a somewhat intelligible , though , doubtless , still secondary theory of my delight in the mountains . 6 The ...
... force to me . Adding to these inherited feelings the pleasurable present exercise of Mr. Bain's muscular sense , ' I obtain a somewhat intelligible , though , doubtless , still secondary theory of my delight in the mountains . 6 The ...
Pagina 44
... , I think , on a certain balance between the forces of nature and man's ability to cope with them : if they are too weak , the scene man . · C fails to impress ; if they are too strong for 44 [ 1830 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... , I think , on a certain balance between the forces of nature and man's ability to cope with them : if they are too weak , the scene man . · C fails to impress ; if they are too strong for 44 [ 1830 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
Pagina 55
... force , and as the fine snow was perfectly dry , it was driven over us in clouds . Had no other obstacle existed , this alone would have been suffi- cient to render the observations on solar radiation impossible . We were therefore ...
... force , and as the fine snow was perfectly dry , it was driven over us in clouds . Had no other obstacle existed , this alone would have been suffi- cient to render the observations on solar radiation impossible . We were therefore ...
Pagina 68
... , a mass of organised force , silent , but emitting at times a whistle which sounded like the piping of a lost chamois . In a hollow of the Engelhörner a mass of snow had found a lodgment ; 68 [ 1861 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... , a mass of organised force , silent , but emitting at times a whistle which sounded like the piping of a lost chamois . In a hollow of the Engelhörner a mass of snow had found a lodgment ; 68 [ 1861 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
Pagina 71
... force himself , but the mass yields , and he falls back , sinking deeply in the snow of the schrund . He stands right over the fissure , which is merely bridged by the snow . I call out , Take care ! ' he responds , All right ! ' and ...
... force himself , but the mass yields , and he falls back , sinking deeply in the snow of the schrund . He stands right over the fissure , which is merely bridged by the snow . I call out , Take care ! ' he responds , All right ! ' and ...
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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...