 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...  Cyclopædic science simplified - Page 191by John Henry Pepper - 1877Full view - About this book
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 594 pages
...the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snowflakes descending so...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 pages
...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 - 534 pages
...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...; 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 pages
...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...; 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 pages
...the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snowflakes descending so...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 - 370 pages
...the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snowflakes descending so...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 - 376 pages
...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 - 392 pages
...the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snowflakes, descending...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 pages
...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...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 pages
...the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snowflakes, descending...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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