 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 pagina’s
...the one dull, uniform sound, were all hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable....each note of that wild music told of one more step towards their destiny. It is not possible for the mind to comprehend, except by a slow process, any... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1846 - 434 pagina’s
...the one dull uniform sound, were all hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable....stones : the ocean is their eternity-: and each note of thnt wild music told of one more step towards their destiny. It is not possible for the mind to comprehend,... | |
 | Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850 - 548 pagina’s
...the one dull uniform sound, were all hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable....each note of that wild music told of one more step towards their destiny. " It is not possible for the mind to comprehend, except by a slow process, any... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1850 - 156 pagina’s
...the one dull uniform sound, were all hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable....each note of that wild music told of one more step towards their destiny. — As often as I have seen beds of mud, sand, and shingle, accumulated to the... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pagina’s
...the one dull uniform sound, were all hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable....each note of that wild music told of one more step towards their destiny. It is not possible for the mind to comprehend, except by a slow process, any... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 362 pagina’s
...show its power. Here, sixty miles from its origin in the glaciers of Antisana, it is seventy -five feet wide, but in the wet season it is one hundred...morrow we traveled fourteen miles, crossing the lofty Gruacamayo ridge,* fording at much risk the deep Cochachimbamba, and camping at a spot (the Indians... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 546 pagina’s
...one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irreeoverable. So was it with these stones ; the ocean is their eternity,...each note of that wild music told of one more step towards their destiny. It is not possible for the mind to comprehend, except by a slow process, any... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1875 - 610 pagina’s
...the one dull uniform sound, were all hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable....each note of that wild music told of one more step towards their destiny. ' It is not possible for the mind to comprehend, except by a slow process, any... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 224 pagina’s
...direction. It is like thinking of time, when the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable. So it is with these stones ; the ocean is their eternity, and each note of that wild music tells of one other step towards their destiny." Who can fail to discern in such a passage the poetic... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 pagina’s
...the one dull, uniform sound, were all hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrecoverable....each note of that wild music told of one more step towards their destiny. It is not possible for the mind to comprehend, except by a slow process, any... | |
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The sound spoke eloquently to the geologist; the thousands and thousands of stones, which, striking against each other made the one dull uniform sound, were all hurrying in one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides... 
