Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina v
... present volume , however , is for the most part a record of bodily action , written partly to preserve to myself the memory of strong and joyous hours , and partly for the pleasure of those who find exhilaration in descriptions ...
... present volume , however , is for the most part a record of bodily action , written partly to preserve to myself the memory of strong and joyous hours , and partly for the pleasure of those who find exhilaration in descriptions ...
Pagina viii
... 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 name of a friend whom I taught in his boy- hood to handle a ...
... 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 name of a friend whom I taught in his boy- hood to handle a ...
Pagina 8
... present attempt should not be successful . The elastic grass disappeared , and we passed over rough crag and shingle alternately . We reached the base of a ridge of débris , and mounted it . At our right was the glacier of the Roththal ...
... present attempt should not be successful . The elastic grass disappeared , and we passed over rough crag and shingle alternately . We reached the base of a ridge of débris , and mounted it . At our right was the glacier of the Roththal ...
Pagina 28
... present in consequence only the narrative of an unfinished campaign , which it is the hope of Tyndall and myself to be able to prosecute to a successful conclusion early next August . I had fallen in with Professor Tyndall on the Basle ...
... present in consequence only the narrative of an unfinished campaign , which it is the hope of Tyndall and myself to be able to prosecute to a successful conclusion early next August . I had fallen in with Professor Tyndall on the Basle ...
Pagina 40
... present shape , it seems as if such a mass as this can have been blocked out only while rising from the sea , under the action of waves such as beat against the granite headlands of the Land's End . Once on dry land , it must stand as ...
... present shape , it seems as if such a mass as this can have been blocked out only while rising from the sea , under the action of waves such as beat against the granite headlands of the Land's End . Once on dry land , it must stand as ...
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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...