 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 - Сторінка 3321868Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 стор.
...quotation from Professor Tyndall : — "I have seen," he says, "the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with...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,... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 стор.
...thunderstorm." * Tyndall himself also beautifully illustrates this subject in his remark : " I have seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt...competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them twice the height from which they fell."f When galvanic... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 стор.
...descent of a ton down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with...; 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 - 500 стор.
...descent of a ton down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with...; 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 стор.
...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 with...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 стор.
...motions represent. "I have seen," says Professor Tyndall, " the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with...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 (Jr.) - 1864 - 372 стор.
...composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." If such,... | |
 | 1865 - 648 стор.
...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 with...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 стор.
...descent of a tun down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with...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 - 372 стор.
...descent of a tun down a precipice 43;> feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with...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... | |
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