Hours of exercise in the Alps. [Followed by] Notes and comments on ice and glaciers [&c.].1871 |
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... natural knowledge and of natural scenery chooses to spend his life . Much as I enjoy the work , I do not think that I could have filled my days and hours in the Alps with clambering alone . The climbing in many cases was the peg on ...
... natural knowledge and of natural scenery chooses to spend his life . Much as I enjoy the work , I do not think that I could have filled my days and hours in the Alps with clambering alone . The climbing in many cases was the peg on ...
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... nature , and hence , to account for that love , I must fall back upon something earlier than my own birth . The ... natural scenery with growing years . But to the associations of the indi- vidual himself he adds certain deeper , but now ...
... nature , and hence , to account for that love , I must fall back upon something earlier than my own birth . The ... natural scenery with growing years . But to the associations of the indi- vidual himself he adds certain deeper , but now ...
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... MATTERHORN ( from a drawing by E. W. Cooke , R. A. ) , RECOVERY OF OUR PORTER دو JOHANN JOSEPH BENNEN THE GORGE OF PFEFFERS ( SHOWING EROSIVE ACTION ) 91 117 29 149 " " 201 219 39 ' Nature , thou earliest gospel of the wise ,
... MATTERHORN ( from a drawing by E. W. Cooke , R. A. ) , RECOVERY OF OUR PORTER دو JOHANN JOSEPH BENNEN THE GORGE OF PFEFFERS ( SHOWING EROSIVE ACTION ) 91 117 29 149 " " 201 219 39 ' Nature , thou earliest gospel of the wise ,
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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 ...
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... 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 ...
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