Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... matters had wearied and weakened me beyond measure , and to gain a little strength I went to Killarney . The trip was bene- ficial , but not of permanent benefit . The air of those most lovely lakes was too moist and warm for my ...
... matters had wearied and weakened me beyond measure , and to gain a little strength I went to Killarney . The trip was bene- ficial , but not of permanent benefit . The air of those most lovely lakes was too moist and warm for my ...
Pagina 39
... Matter- horn , certainly a tremendous array . Actual contact immensely increases one's impressions of this , the hardest and strongest of all the mountain masses of the Alps ; its form is more remarkable than that of other mountains ...
... Matter- horn , certainly a tremendous array . Actual contact immensely increases one's impressions of this , the hardest and strongest of all the mountain masses of the Alps ; its form is more remarkable than that of other mountains ...
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... matter . Soon we come somewhat under the lee of the rocks , and now all risk is over , we are through the funnel , and floundering waist - deep , heedless of cre- vasses in the comparatively level slopes beyond . We plunge securely down ...
... matter . Soon we come somewhat under the lee of the rocks , and now all risk is over , we are through the funnel , and floundering waist - deep , heedless of cre- vasses in the comparatively level slopes beyond . We plunge securely down ...
Pagina 62
... Matter , in relation to vital phenomena , has yet to be studied , and the command of Canute to the waves would be wisdom itself compared with any attempt to stop such enquiries . Let the tide rise , and let knowledge advance ; the ...
... Matter , in relation to vital phenomena , has yet to be studied , and the command of Canute to the waves would be wisdom itself compared with any attempt to stop such enquiries . Let the tide rise , and let knowledge advance ; the ...
Pagina 67
... , which I thought a piece of astonishing rhetoric , but of very unsound science . essential to the natural philosopher , but its matter must [ 861 ] THE URBACHTHAL AND GAULI GLACIER . 67 THE URBACHTHAL AND GAULI GLACIER.
... , which I thought a piece of astonishing rhetoric , but of very unsound science . essential to the natural philosopher , but its matter must [ 861 ] THE URBACHTHAL AND GAULI GLACIER . 67 THE URBACHTHAL AND GAULI GLACIER.
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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...