 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 336 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
...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
...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
...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
...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 - 356 pagina’s
...bed 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 Guacamayo ridge,* fording at much risk the deep Cochachimbamba, and camping at a spot (the Indians... | |
 | James Orton - 1870
...bed 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 Guacamayo ridge,* fording at much risk the deep Cochachimbamba, and camping at a spot (the Indians... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 356 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 Guacamayo ridge,* fording at much risk the deep Cochachimbamba, and camping at a spot (the Indians... | |
 | CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S., - 1871
...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 - 556 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... 
