The Story of the Hills: A Book about Mountains for General ReadersMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 357 страница |
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... continually from them . The writer has , some- what reluctantly , omitted certain parts of the subject which , though very interesting to the geologist , can hardly be made attractive to general readers . Thus , the cause of earth ...
... continually from them . The writer has , some- what reluctantly , omitted certain parts of the subject which , though very interesting to the geologist , can hardly be made attractive to general readers . Thus , the cause of earth ...
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... continually effecting their waste and decay , and thus in- terpreting the story of the hills as it is written in the very rocks of which they are built up . Naturalists have collected and noted the peculiar plants and animals which have ...
... continually effecting their waste and decay , and thus in- terpreting the story of the hills as it is written in the very rocks of which they are built up . Naturalists have collected and noted the peculiar plants and animals which have ...
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... continually by evaporation . II . Mountains are elevated reservoirs of water in one form or another , and thus not only feed the streams and rivers , but give them force and direction . as well . III . Mountains suffer themselves to be ...
... continually by evaporation . II . Mountains are elevated reservoirs of water in one form or another , and thus not only feed the streams and rivers , but give them force and direction . as well . III . Mountains suffer themselves to be ...
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... continually , from silent snowfields and glaciers among her mountain - peaks , are the very arteries and veins of the earth ; and as the blood in our bodies is forced to circulate by pressure from the heart 44 The Story of the Hills .
... continually , from silent snowfields and glaciers among her mountain - peaks , are the very arteries and veins of the earth ; and as the blood in our bodies is forced to circulate by pressure from the heart 44 The Story of the Hills .
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... continual supplies which pour gently forth from the mountains of higher latitudes . The Alps feed four of the principal rivers of Europe . We cannot do better than quote Pro- fessor Bonney , whose writings on the Alps are familiar to ...
... continual supplies which pour gently forth from the mountains of higher latitudes . The Alps feed four of the principal rivers of Europe . We cannot do better than quote Pro- fessor Bonney , whose writings on the Alps are familiar to ...
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Страница 120 - When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey lichen take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave.
Страница 120 - ... as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace.
Страница 120 - Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin,— laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest.
Страница 301 - ... their rude and changeful ways among her rocks. Patiently, eddy by eddy, the clear green streams wind along their well-known beds; and under the dark quietness of the undisturbed pines, there spring up, year by year, such company of joyful flowers as I know not the like of among all the blessings of the earth.
Страница 120 - ... on the trembling stones to teach them rest. No words, that I know of, will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. How is one to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, — the starred divisions of rubied bloom...
Страница 300 - Ain, above the village of Champagnole, in the Jura. It is a spot which has all the solemnity, with none of the savageness, of the Alps, where there is a sense of a great power beginning to be manifested in the earth, and of a deep and majestic concord in the rise of the long, low lines of piny hills...
Страница 62 - As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire. The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.