Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... theory of my delight in the mountains . 6 The name of a friend whom I taught in his boy- hood to handle a theodolite and lay a chain , and who afterwards turned his knowledge to account on the glaciers of the Alps , occurs frequently in ...
... theory of my delight in the mountains . 6 The name of a friend whom I taught in his boy- hood to handle a theodolite and lay a chain , and who afterwards turned his knowledge to account on the glaciers of the Alps , occurs frequently in ...
Pagina 33
... 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 , unless he goes into it also - an event which seems impossible - and I think I can ...
... 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 , unless he goes into it also - an event which seems impossible - and I think I can ...
Pagina 66
... investigation , is a most mischievous tendency . We complain of the con- tempt with which practical men regard theory , and , to confound them , triumphantly exhibit the specu- lative achievements 66 1861 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... investigation , is a most mischievous tendency . We complain of the con- tempt with which practical men regard theory , and , to confound them , triumphantly exhibit the specu- lative achievements 66 1861 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
Pagina 67
... theories with which he is acquainted are de- serving of nothing better than contempt . Our master minds built their theoretic edifices upon the rock of fact , the quantity of fact necessary to enable them to divine the law being a ...
... theories with which he is acquainted are de- serving of nothing better than contempt . Our master minds built their theoretic edifices upon the rock of fact , the quantity of fact necessary to enable them to divine the law being a ...
Pagina 100
... theory . The snow was fine in grain , pure , and moist . When pressed , the attachments of its granules were innumerable , and their perfect cleanness enabled them to freeze together with a maximum energy . It was this freezing which ...
... theory . The snow was fine in grain , pure , and moist . When pressed , the attachments of its granules were innumerable , and their perfect cleanness enabled them to freeze together with a maximum energy . It was this freezing which ...
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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...