| Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - 1914 - 612 Seiten
...feature of all the landscape. For a stone, when it is examined, will be found a mountain in minature. The fineness of Nature's work is so great that into...large one; and taking moss for forests, and grains of crystals for crags, the surface of a stone, in most cases, is more interesting than the surface of... | |
| John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 Seiten
...the community of cathedral and Alp, he was equally alert to visible fact and translatable meaning: For a stone, when it is examined, will be found a...grains of crystal for crags, the surface of a stone, in by far the plurality of instances, is more interesting than the surface of an ordinary hill; more fantastic... | |
| Donald L. Turcotte - 1997 - 424 Seiten
...INVARIANCE A stone, when it is examined, will be found a mountain in miniature. The fineness of Nature 's work is so great, that, into a single block, a foot...grains of crystal for crags, the surface of a stone, in bv far the plurality of instances, is more interesting than the surface of an ordinary hill; more fantastic... | |
| Donald L. Turcotte - 1997 - 424 Seiten
...mountain in miniature. The fineness of Nature's work is so great, that, into a single block, afoot or two in diameter, she can compress as many changes...grains of crystal for crags, the surface of a stone, in by far the plurality of instances, is more interesting than the surface of an ordinary hill; more fantastic... | |
| Stefan Hergarten - 2002 - 288 Seiten
...so great, that, into a single block, a foot or two in diameter, she can compress as many changes in form and structure, on a small scale, as she needs...grains of crystal for crags, the surface of a stone, in by far the plurality of instances, is more interesting than the surface of an ordinary hill; more fantastic... | |
| Goodloe Harper Bell - 1886 - 124 Seiten
...of wings and a drone pipe ?" — Swift. 122. The fineness of Nature's work is so great,180 that,86 into a single block a foot or two in diameter, she can compress as many changes of form and structure,77 on a small scale,77 as she needs for the mountains on a large one ;155 and,61 taking moss... | |
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