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To gaze upon one noble mountain peak is certainly inspiring , but having felt the thrill awakened by its radiant beauty , we remain unsatisfied till we behold the whole sublime expanse of the great Alpine world .
To gaze upon one noble mountain peak is certainly inspiring , but having felt the thrill awakened by its radiant beauty , we remain unsatisfied till we behold the whole sublime expanse of the great Alpine world .
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As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains , I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another , ' Surely , ' said I , ' man is but a shadow , and life a dream .
As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains , I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another , ' Surely , ' said I , ' man is but a shadow , and life a dream .
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( From " GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES ” ) MOUNTAINS AND THEIR ORIGIN . A CHAPTER on mountains will not be an inappropriate introduction to that part of the world's history on which we are now entering , when the great inequalities of the earth's ...
( From " GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES ” ) MOUNTAINS AND THEIR ORIGIN . A CHAPTER on mountains will not be an inappropriate introduction to that part of the world's history on which we are now entering , when the great inequalities of the earth's ...
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Foldings of the earth's crust , low hills , extensive plains , mountain - chains , and narrow valleys , broad table - lands and wide valleys , local chimneys or volcanoes , river beds , lake basins , inland seas , such are some of the ...
Foldings of the earth's crust , low hills , extensive plains , mountain - chains , and narrow valleys , broad table - lands and wide valleys , local chimneys or volcanoes , river beds , lake basins , inland seas , such are some of the ...
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Leaving aside the more general phenomena , let us look now at the formation of mountains especially . ... To explain this I must enter into some details respecting the arrangement of stratified deposits on mountain - slopes and in ...
Leaving aside the more general phenomena , let us look now at the formation of mountains especially . ... To explain this I must enter into some details respecting the arrangement of stratified deposits on mountain - slopes and in ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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