Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... stone dropped from its pro- tuberance would fall beyond the ridge . I had to work along the snow cautiously , squatting down so as to prevent the rock from pushing me too far out . Had I a fair ledge underneath I should have felt per ...
... stone dropped from its pro- tuberance would fall beyond the ridge . I had to work along the snow cautiously , squatting down so as to prevent the rock from pushing me too far out . Had I a fair ledge underneath I should have felt per ...
Pagina 30
... stones . The mountain too has a sort of prestige of invincibility which is not without its influence on the mind , and almost leads one to expect to encounter some new and unheard - of source of peril upon it : 30 [ 1860 HOURS OF ...
... stones . The mountain too has a sort of prestige of invincibility which is not without its influence on the mind , and almost leads one to expect to encounter some new and unheard - of source of peril upon it : 30 [ 1860 HOURS OF ...
Pagina 39
... stones fall which have scarred the sides of the crater . The sides are steep , but we curve quickly and silently round them : no stones fall upon us ; and now we have reached the narrow neck of snow which forms the actual gap ; it is ...
... stones fall which have scarred the sides of the crater . The sides are steep , but we curve quickly and silently round them : no stones fall upon us ; and now we have reached the narrow neck of snow which forms the actual gap ; it is ...
Pagina 44
... stones and ice have no mercy in them , no sympathy with human adventure ; they submit passively to what man can do ; but let him go a step too far , let heart or hand fail , mist gather or sun go down , and they will exact the penalty ...
... stones and ice have no mercy in them , no sympathy with human adventure ; they submit passively to what man can do ; but let him go a step too far , let heart or hand fail , mist gather or sun go down , and they will exact the penalty ...
Pagina 45
... stone where Carrel sat , and the tops of one or two crags rising from below . The view was , of course , magnificent , and on three sides wholly unimpeded : with one hand I could drop a stone which would descend to Zmutt , with the ...
... stone where Carrel sat , and the tops of one or two crags rising from below . The view was , of course , magnificent , and on three sides wholly unimpeded : with one hand I could drop a stone which would descend to Zmutt , with the ...
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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...