The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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... 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 . Another wish of the compiler of this work has ...
... 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 . Another wish of the compiler of this work has ...
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... 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 . ' Whilst I was thus musing , I cast my eyes toward ...
... 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 . ' Whilst I was thus musing , I cast my eyes toward ...
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... MOUNTAINS AND THEIR ORIGIN A CHAPTER on mountains will not be an inappropriate intro- duction to that part of the world's history on which we are now entering , when the great inequalities of the earth's surface began to make their ...
... MOUNTAINS AND THEIR ORIGIN A CHAPTER on mountains will not be an inappropriate intro- duction to that part of the world's history on which we are now entering , when the great inequalities of the earth's surface began to make their ...
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... 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 phenom- ena which , disconnected as they seem at first glance ...
... 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 phenom- ena which , disconnected as they seem at first glance ...
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... mountain waves twenty thousand feet high , and fixed them where they stand , perpetual memorials of the convul ... mountain - slopes and in mountain - chains , taking merely theoretical cases , however , to illustrate phenomena which we ...
... mountain waves twenty thousand feet high , and fixed them where they stand , perpetual memorials of the convul ... mountain - slopes and in mountain - chains , taking merely theoretical cases , however , to illustrate phenomena which we ...
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