 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837 - 406 pages
...the plains, and raise their peaked summits to an immense height in the air, while projecting craggs spring from their rugged flanks, and, threatening...fragments, which time seems to have detached from the apparent mass ; and, when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging cliffs,... | |
 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 280 pages
...projecting sides, and seem on the eve of being precipitated into the tremendous chasm below. CXLI. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are...which time seems to have detached from their parent CXXXVIII. Why cannot the Moon have any sensible diversity of seasons 1 What then may we infer to be... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...their projecting sides, and seem on the eve of being precipitated into the tremendous chasm below. I Around the base of these frightful eminences, are...numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time i seems to have detached from their parent mass ; and when ! we examine the rents and ravines which... | |
 | Fantastical excursion - 1839 - 214 pages
...seem to bid . " ' • See Whiston. defiance to the law of gravitation, as already around the bases of these frightful eminences are strewed numerous...fragments, which time seems to have detached from the parent mass, and when examining the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging cliffs, we... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1842 - 344 pages
...their projecting sides, and seem on the eve of being precipitated into the tremendous chasm below. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are...examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging cliffs, the beholder expects every moment that they are to be torn from their base, and... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...terrific ruggedness of Alpine regions, than to the lower inequalities of less elevated countries. These masses of rock rise at once from the plains, and raise...examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging cliffs, we expect every moment that they are to be torn from their base, and that the process... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...terrific ruggediiess of Alpine regions, than to the lower inequalities of less elevated countries. These masses of rock rise at once from the plains, and raise...examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging 'cliffs, we expect every moment that they arc to be torn from their base, and that the... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1862 - 326 pages
...resemblance to the lowering sublimity and terrific ruggedness of the Alpine regions (the Swiss Alps) than to the tamer inequalities of less elevated countries....fragments, which time seems to have detached from the apparent mass ; and, when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the overhanging cliffs,... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1874 - 362 pages
...their projecting sides, and seem on the eve of being precipitated into the tremendous chasm below. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are...their parent mass ; and when we examine the rents and rarines which accompany the overhanging cliffs, the beholder expects every moment that they are to... | |
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Huge massess of rock rise at once from the plains, and raise their peaked summits to an immense height in the air, while projecting crags spring from their rugged flanks and threatening the valleys below, seem to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation.... 
