Appalachia, Volume 15, Issues 3-4Charles E. Fay, J. Rayner Edmands Appalachian Mountain Club., 1923 |
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Page 226 - In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, Is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
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Page 522 - ... and the coasts of China. Le Roy Jeffers, who has charge of the purchase of books and periodicals for the branches of the New York Public Library throughout Manhattan, Bronx and Richmond, is secretary of the Bureau of Associated Mountaineering Clubs of North America. This organization comprises fifty clubs and societies, having in addition to outdoor and mountaineering activities, a common interest in the creation, development and protection of National Parks and Forests. Mr. Jeffers is a frequent...
Page 378 - Ah ! Vanitas Vanitatum ! which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied ? — come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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Page 412 - FACSIMILE copy of the Declaration of Independence has been issued by the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. This reproduction is a composite reduced facsimile, one-quarter size, taken from a facsimile reproduction of the original Declaration of Independence made by WI Stone, in 1823, under the direction of John Quincy Adams, then Secretary of State. The original engrossed Declaration is in the custody of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. The John Hancock Company will be glad to send...
Page 457 - At night-fall, once, in the olden time, on the rugged side of one of the Crystal Hills, a party of adventurers were refreshing themselves, after a toilsome and fruitless quest for the Great Carbuncle. They had come thither, not as friends, nor partners in the enterprise, but each, save one youthful pair, impelled by his own selfish and solitary longing for this wondrous gem.
Page 236 - ... the first half-hour, and were not a quarter of the way to my mark ; and as even when there we should not be half-way to the top, matters began to look serious. The ice was very hard, and it was necessary, as Lauener observed, to cut steps in it as big as soup-tureens, for the result of a slip would in all probability have been that the rest of our lives would have been spent in sliding down a snow-slope, and that that employment would not have lasted long enough to become at all monotonous.
Page 482 - THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB. EARLY in January, 1876, a meeting of those interested in mountain exploration was called at the Institute of Technology, Boston. This resulted in the formation of a society called The Appalachian Mountain Club, having for its objects the exploration of the mountains of New England and the adjacent regions, both for scientific and artistic purposes ; also, in general, to cultivate an interest in geographical studies.
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