Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... nature , and hence , to account for that love , I must fall back upon something earlier than my own birth . The forgotten associations of a far - gone ancestry are probably the most potent elements in the feeling . With characteristic ...
... nature , and hence , to account for that love , I must fall back upon something earlier than my own birth . The forgotten associations of a far - gone ancestry are probably the most potent elements in the feeling . With characteristic ...
Pagina xi
... FROM THE RIFFEL THE MATTERHORN ( from a drawing by E. W. Cooke , R. A. ) , RECOVERY OF OUR PORTER JOHANN JOSEPH BENNEN • THE GORGE OF PFEFFERS ( SHOWING EROSIVE ACTION ) 117 " " 149 201 219 Nature , thou earliest gospel of the wise , Thou.
... FROM THE RIFFEL THE MATTERHORN ( from a drawing by E. W. Cooke , R. A. ) , RECOVERY OF OUR PORTER JOHANN JOSEPH BENNEN • THE GORGE OF PFEFFERS ( SHOWING EROSIVE ACTION ) 117 " " 149 201 219 Nature , thou earliest gospel of the wise , Thou.
Pagina xii
John Tyndall. Nature , thou earliest gospel of the wise , Thou never - silent hymner unto God ; Thou angel - ladder lost amidst the skies , Though at the foot we dream upon the sod ; To thee the priesthood of the lyre belong- They hear ...
John Tyndall. Nature , thou earliest gospel of the wise , Thou never - silent hymner unto God ; Thou angel - ladder lost amidst the skies , Though at the foot we dream upon the sod ; To thee the priesthood of the lyre belong- They hear ...
Pagina 30
... nature has kindly opened to man , by leaving one side of them a sloping plain of snow , easy of ascent , till the brink of the pre- cipice is reached which descends on the other side . The square massive lines of terraced crags which ...
... nature has kindly opened to man , by leaving one side of them a sloping plain of snow , easy of ascent , till the brink of the pre- cipice is reached which descends on the other side . The square massive lines of terraced crags which ...
Pagina 33
... nature's gentleman , he is to me the most delightful of companions ; and though no ' theory ' defines our reciprocal obliga- tions as guide and employer , I am sure that no precipice will ever engulf me so long as Bennen is within reach ...
... nature's gentleman , he is to me the most delightful of companions ; and though no ' theory ' defines our reciprocal obliga- tions as guide and employer , I am sure that no precipice will ever engulf me so long as Bennen is within reach ...
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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...