The Story of the Hills: A Book about Mountains for General ReadersMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 357 страница |
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... movements , by which mountains are pushed up far above the plains that lie at their feet , is at present a matter of speculation ; and it is difficult to express in ordinary language the ideas that have been put forward on this subject ...
... movements , by which mountains are pushed up far above the plains that lie at their feet , is at present a matter of speculation ; and it is difficult to express in ordinary language the ideas that have been put forward on this subject ...
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... movement and change in the atmosphere . Let us see how this takes place . Mountains expose on one side their masses of rock to the full heat of the sun . Rocks are capable of becoming highly heated under a blazing sun we have known ...
... movement and change in the atmosphere . Let us see how this takes place . Mountains expose on one side their masses of rock to the full heat of the sun . Rocks are capable of becoming highly heated under a blazing sun we have known ...
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... movement . Hence mountains help to make currents in the atmosphere , and these cur- rents produce important consequences . When mountain - ranges trend more or less di- rectly across the direction of prevailing winds , they always have ...
... movement . Hence mountains help to make currents in the atmosphere , and these cur- rents produce important consequences . When mountain - ranges trend more or less di- rectly across the direction of prevailing winds , they always have ...
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... movement . The explana- tion is simply this : to the east of the Hartz Mountains there is always a very dense and hazy atmosphere , so dense that it presents a surface capable of receiving the impression of a shadow , and of retaining ...
... movement . The explana- tion is simply this : to the east of the Hartz Mountains there is always a very dense and hazy atmosphere , so dense that it presents a surface capable of receiving the impression of a shadow , and of retaining ...
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... movements . The idea of terra firma belongs with the ancient belief that the earth was the centre of the uni verse . It is , indeed , by their mobility that the continents survive the increasing assaults of the ocean waves , and the ...
... movements . The idea of terra firma belongs with the ancient belief that the earth was the centre of the uni verse . It is , indeed , by their mobility that the continents survive the increasing assaults of the ocean waves , and the ...
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Страница 126 - ... 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.
Страница 126 - 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 126 - ... 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.
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Страница 126 - 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 66 - 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.
Страница 126 - Spirits could spin porphyry as we do grass, — 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. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love token ; but of these the wild bird will make its nest, and the wearied child his pillow.
Страница 63 - Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.