 I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they...  The Intellectual Observer - Página 3321868Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 páginas
...beautiful quotation from Professor Tyndall : — "I have seen," he says, "the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities...child could carry of that tender material demands an energy competent to gather up the scattered blocks of the largest stone avalanches I have ever seen,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 páginas
...feet high ; and the third is equal to the descent of a ton down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke...; yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 páginas
...feet high ; and the third is equal to the descent of a ton down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke...; yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather... | |
 | EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 páginas
...down a precipice 433 feet high. 281. Prof. TYNDALL remarks, *I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities...which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent... | |
 | Josiah Parsons Cooke - 1864 - 376 páginas
...these atomic motions represent. "I have seen," says Professor Tyndall, " the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities...which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent... | |
 | 1865 - 388 páginas
...high ; and the third is equal to thtT descent of a tun down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke...they were composed ; yet, to produce, from aqueous vapor, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy... | |
 | 1865 - 648 páginas
...ton down a precipice four hundred and thirty-three feet high. I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities...which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent... | |
 | 1865 - 372 páginas
...high ; and the t'.iird is equal to the descent of a tun down a precipice 43;> feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke...fragile spangles of which they were composed; yet, t ) produce, from aqueous vapor, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands... | |
 | 1865 - 648 páginas
...declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer; I have also seen snow-flake's descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles...which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 páginas
...feet high ; and the third is equal to the descent of a ton down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke...; yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather... | |
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