 | James Orton - 1875 - 672 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1894 - 392 pagina’s
...rattling over each other in the mountain torrents on the Cordilleras) 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." What speaks there is quite a metaphysical imagination, and the reader who consults... | |
 | Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond - 1894 - 472 pagina’s
...the Cordilleras) was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrevocable ; 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." Well may Dr Stirling comment, " What speaks there is quite a metaphysical imagination."... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 pagina’s
...time, where the minute that now glides past is irre1835.] TORRENTS OF THE CORDILLERA. 317 coverable. 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - 542 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... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1909 - 102 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," he continues, "for the mind to comprehend except by a slow... | |
 | 1909 - 574 pagina’s
...one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrevocable. 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 564 pagina’s
...one direction. It was like thinking on time, where the minute that now glides past is irrevocable. 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... | |
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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... 
