Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... heights . They attained a maximum about two P.M. , and afterwards the overladen air cleared itself by intermittent jerks -revealing at times the blue of heaven and the peaks of the mountains ; then closing up again , and hiding in their ...
... heights . They attained a maximum about two P.M. , and afterwards the overladen air cleared itself by intermittent jerks -revealing at times the blue of heaven and the peaks of the mountains ; then closing up again , and hiding in their ...
Pagina 11
... heights , which our guides affirm has turned the day against us . I cast about in my mind to meet the difficulty , and enquire whether we might not send one of them back with the theodolite , and thus so lighten our burdens as to be ...
... heights , which our guides affirm has turned the day against us . I cast about in my mind to meet the difficulty , and enquire whether we might not send one of them back with the theodolite , and thus so lighten our burdens as to be ...
Pagina 13
... heights . We scanned those heights . The view was bounded by a massive cornice , from which the avalanches are periodically let loose . The cornice seemed firm ; still we cast about for some piece of rock which might shelter us from the ...
... heights . We scanned those heights . The view was bounded by a massive cornice , from which the avalanches are periodically let loose . The cornice seemed firm ; still we cast about for some piece of rock which might shelter us from the ...
Pagina 45
... heights , with escape before night all but impossible , and he will see no glory in the scene - only the angry eye of the setting sun fixed on dark rocks and dead - white snow . We had risen seemingly to an immense height above the gap ...
... heights , with escape before night all but impossible , and he will see no glory in the scene - only the angry eye of the setting sun fixed on dark rocks and dead - white snow . We had risen seemingly to an immense height above the gap ...
Pagina 79
... heights . My ascent was quick , and I soon found myself upon the crest of broken rocks which caps the mountain . The peak and those adjacent , which are similarly shattered , exhibit a striking picture of the ruin which nature inflicts ...
... heights . My ascent was quick , and I soon found myself upon the crest of broken rocks which caps the mountain . The peak and those adjacent , which are similarly shattered , exhibit a striking picture of the ruin which nature inflicts ...
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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...