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Page xxii
... stream was as nearly choked as could be with balls and ellipsoids of ice , from the size of its common stones to that of a portmanteau , which were rolling down with it wildly , generally swinging out and in of the water as it waved ...
... stream was as nearly choked as could be with balls and ellipsoids of ice , from the size of its common stones to that of a portmanteau , which were rolling down with it wildly , generally swinging out and in of the water as it waved ...
Page xxvii
... streams " ( p . 339 ) . In 1861 Ruskin " went into Savoy and spent two winters on the south slope of the Mont Salève , in order to study the secondary ranges 1 See ch . xi . pp . 202 seq . ( edition of 1900 ) . 2 See Vol . VI . pp . 255 ...
... streams " ( p . 339 ) . In 1861 Ruskin " went into Savoy and spent two winters on the south slope of the Mont Salève , in order to study the secondary ranges 1 See ch . xi . pp . 202 seq . ( edition of 1900 ) . 2 See Vol . VI . pp . 255 ...
Page xl
... stream because the ice must be viscous . His error consisted in always com- paring viscous ( zähflüssige ) substances with the glacier , instead of those whose inner cohesion is less than their internal friction " ( pp . 190-191 ) . But ...
... stream because the ice must be viscous . His error consisted in always com- paring viscous ( zähflüssige ) substances with the glacier , instead of those whose inner cohesion is less than their internal friction " ( pp . 190-191 ) . But ...
Page xlv
... streams of Yewdale , whose first results were given in my Kendal lecture " 2 ( October 1877 ) . This became Chapter XII . The scene is changed , but the argu- ment remains constant , and Ruskin raises by the streams of Yewdale the same ...
... streams of Yewdale , whose first results were given in my Kendal lecture " 2 ( October 1877 ) . This became Chapter XII . The scene is changed , but the argu- ment remains constant , and Ruskin raises by the streams of Yewdale the same ...
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... streams or by more violent forces out of a mass of elevated land , just as you cut a pattern in thick velvet or cloth ; and there is the mountain produced by the wrinkling or folding of the land itself , as the more picturesque masses ...
... streams or by more violent forces out of a mass of elevated land , just as you cut a pattern in thick velvet or cloth ; and there is the mountain produced by the wrinkling or folding of the land itself , as the more picturesque masses ...
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