 | 1843 - 504 pages
...over the obstacles which before had staid its progress, and hastens through fertile valleys towards a freer existence, and a final union in the ocean with the boundless and the infinite. Abstract of a Paper on Wood-Paving. By DT HOPE, Esq., FRSSA, Civil Engineer, Liverpool. Communicated... | |
 | 1844 - 702 pages
...over the obstacles which before had stayed its progress, and hastens through fertile valleys towards a freer existence, and a final union in the ocean with the boundless and the infinite.' — (P. 387.) It is not to supply what is unavoidably deficient, or to perfect what is necessarily... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 pages
...over the obstacles which before had stayed its progress, and hastens through fertile valleys towards a freer existence, and a final union in the ocean with the boundless and the infinite.' — (P. 387.) It is not to supply what is unavoidably deficient, or to perfect what is necessarily... | |
 | James David Forbes - 1845 - 516 pages
...over the obstacles which before had staid its progress, and hastens through fertile valleys towards a freer existence, and a final union in the ocean with the boundless and the infinite. APPENDIX. No. I. ON A REMARKABLE STRUCTURE OBSERVED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE ICE OF GLACIERS.* " TUB object... | |
 | William Lindsay Alexander - 1846 - 364 pages
...over the obstacles which before had staid its progress, and hastens through fertile valleys towards a freer existence, and a final union in the ocean with the boundless and the infinite." — p. 38Y, second edition. This is an exquisite passage both in conception and in expression. But... | |
 | John Murray - 1846 - 552 pages
...over the obstacles which before had stayed its progress, and hastens through fertile valleys towards a freer existence, and a final union in the ocean with the boundless and the indefinite." § 18. AVAbANCHES AND SNOW-STORMS. " The avalanche— the thunderbolt of snow." — Byron.... | |
 | 1848 - 792 pages
...over the obstacles which before had stayed its progress, and hastens through fertile valleys towards a freer existence, and a final union in the ocean with the boundless and the infinite. — Fade's Tour in the Alps. THE STEAM-ENGINE. IN the present perfect state of the steam-engine, it... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1852 - 512 pages
...over the obstacles which before had stayed its progress, and hastens through fertile valleys towards a freer existence, and a final union in the ocean with the boundless and the indefinite." § 18. AVALANCHES AND SNOW-STOBMS. " The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow." — Byron.... | |
 | 1865 - 740 pages
...over the obstacles which before had stayed its progress, and hastens through fertile valleys towards a freer existence, and a final union in the ocean with the boundless and the infinite." It was said just now that the guides and mules are under the direction of the government. It must not... | |
 | James David Forbes - 1855 - 370 pages
...over the obstacles which before had staid its progress, and hastens through fertile valleys towards a freer existence, and a final union in the ocean with the boundless and the infinite. THE PENNINE CHAIN OF ALPS TOUK OF MONT BLANC, ETC. CHAPTEE 1. THE TOUR OF MONT BLANC— CHAMOUNI TO... | |
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... a noble, full-bodied, arrowy stream, which leaps rejoicing over the obstacles which before had stayed its progress, and hastens through fertile valleys towards a freer existence, and a final union in the ocean with the boundless and the infinite. 
