 | John Tyndall - 1860 - 492 Seiten
...Huxley took charge, patiently igniting them in succession, and 1857.] START FROM THE GRANDS MULETS. 73 \ thus giving us a tolerably continuous light. We had...various possibilities of the enterprise crowded on 74 A WRONG TURN. [1857. the imagination, a sense of responsibility for a moment oppressed me. But as... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1906 - 300 Seiten
...The moment was to me a peculiarly solemn one. Our little party seemed so lonely and so small amid E the silence and the vastness of the surrounding scene....smile upon our work. "Yes," he replied, in a calm and earnest voice, "and, God willing, we shall accomplish it." A pale light now overspread the eastern... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 478 Seiten
...suddenly made its appearance above one of the Aiguilles, and burned there with unspeakable splendor. We turned once towards the Mulets, and saw Huxley's...smile upon our work. "Yes," he replied, in a calm and earnest voice, "and, God willing, we shall accomplish it." A pale light now overspread the eastern... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - 1914 - 252 Seiten
...by a bridge of snow, which was of too light a structure to permit of Simond's testing it alone; we_ therefore paused while our guide uncoiled a' rope...imagination, a sense of responsibility for a moment opprest me. But as I looked aloft and saw the glory of the heavens, my heart lightened, and I remarked... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - 1914 - 228 Seiten
...testing it alone; we therefore paused while our guide uncoiled a rope and tied us all together. Tne moment was to me a peculiarly solemn one. Our little...imagination, a sense of responsibility for a moment opprest me. But as I looked aloft and saw the glory of the heavens, my heart lightened, and I remarked... | |
 | Michael D. Vose - 1999 - 650 Seiten
...ascent of Mont Blanc, made in the company of Huxley and two other friends, John Tyndall confessed: 'We were about to try our strength under unknown conditions,...to Hirst that Nature seemed to smile upon our work. GH. n "Yes," he replied, in a calm and earnest voice, "and, God willing, we shall accomplish it." '... | |
 | John Tynall - 2005 - 293 Seiten
...peculiarly solemn one. Our little party seemed so lonely and so small amid E 66 Glaciers of the Alps the silence and the vastness of the surrounding scene....smile upon our work, "Yes," he replied, in a calm and earnest voice, "and, God willing, we shall accomplish it." A pale light now overspread the eastern... | |
 | Francis Halsey - 2006 - 201 Seiten
...permit of Simond's testing it alone; we therefore paused while our guide uncoiled a rope and tied ns all together. The moment was to me a peculiarly solemn...possibilities of the enterprise crowded on the imagination, a sensa of responsibility for a moment opprest me. But as I looked aloft and saw the glory of the heavens,... | |
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Beside this we soon halted : it was spanned at one place by a bridge of snow, which was of too light a structure to permit of Simond's testing it alone; we therefore paused while our guide uncoiled a rope and tied us all together. The moment was to me... 