 | Robert Smith - 1846 - Страниц: 434
...of the torrent. The sound spoke eloquently to the geologist : the thousands and thousands of stones which, striking against each other, made the one dull...stones : the ocean is their eternity-: and each note of thnt wild music told of one more step towards their destiny. It is not possible for the mind to comprehend,... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1850 - Страниц: 156
...of the torrent. The sound spoke eloquently to the geologist; the thousands and thousands of stones, which, striking against each other, made the one dull...music told of one more step towards their destiny. — As often as I have seen beds of mud, sand, and shingle, accumulated to the thickness of many thousand... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - Страниц: 358
...(Journal, p. 316) : " The sound spoke eloquently to the geologist ; the thousands and thousands of stones, which, striking against each other, made the one dull,...hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, when the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable So was it with these stones. The ocean is their... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - Страниц: 378
...(Journal, p. 316) : " The sound spoke eloquently to the geologist ; the thousands and thousands of stones, which, striking against each other, made the one dull,...hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, when the minute that now glides past is .irrecoverable So was it with these stones. The ocean is their... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - Страниц: 372
...(Journal, p. 316) : " The sound spoke eloquently to the geologist ; the thousands and thousands of stones, which, striking against each other, made the one dull,...hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, when the minute that now glides past is .irrecoverable So was it with these stones. The ocean is their... | |
 | James Orton - 1875 - Страниц: 672
...(Journal, p. 316) : " The sound spoke eloquently to the geologist ; the thousands and thousands of stones, which, striking against each other, made the one dull,...hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, when the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable So was it with these stones. The ocean is their... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - Страниц: 224
...direction. It is like thinking of time, when the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable. So it is with these stones ; the ocean is their eternity, and each note of that wild music tells of one other step towards their destiny." Who can fail to discern in such a passage the poetic... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1894 - Страниц: 392
..."It (the noise of the stones rattling over each other in the mountain torrents on the Cordilleras) was like thinking on time, where the minute that now...music told of one more step towards their destiny." What speaks there is quite a metaphysical imagination, and the reader who consults the original will... | |
 | Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond - 1894 - Страниц: 472
..." It (the noise of the stones rattling over each other in the mountain torrents on the Cordilleras) was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrevocable ; so was it with these stones, the ocean is their eternity, and each note of that wild... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - Страниц: 542
...of the torrent. The sound spoke eloquently to the geologist; ihe thousands and thousands of Btones, which, striking against each other, made the one dull...on time, where the minute that now glides past is irre1835.] TORRENTS OF THE CORDILLERA. 317 coverable. So was it with these stones ; the ocean is their... | |
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The sound spoke eloquently to the geologist ; the thousands and thousands of stone, which, striking against each other, made the one dull uniform sound, were all hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides... 
