John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous Places and People Being the Identical Discourses Delivered During the Past Eighteen Years Under the Title of the Stoddard Lectures : Supplementary Volume [s]., Bind 10Balch Brothers., 1898 |
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John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished With Views of the ... John L 1850-1931 Stoddard Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2023 |
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Side 185 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Side 178 - A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of...
Side 291 - At one point, ten thousand feet above the sea, a fearful bli22ard overtook them. The cold and wind seemed unendurable, even for an hour, but they endured them for three days. A sharp sleet cut their faces like a rain of needles, and made it perilous to look ahead. Almost dead from sheer exhaustion, they were unable to lie down for fear of...
Side 208 - CONE. feet above the level of the sea, there lies a marvelous section of our earth, about one-half as large as the State of Connecticut. On three sides this is guarded by lofty, well-nigh inaccessible mountains, as though the Infinite Himself would not allow mankind to rashly enter its sublime enclosure. In this respect our Government has wisely imitated the Creator. It has proclaimed to all the world the sanctity of this peculiar area. It has received it as a gift from God and, as His trustee, holds...
Side 183 - God-appointed celebrant, in the cathedrals of this canyon, must be Nature. Her voice alone can rouse the echoes of these mountains into deafening peals of thunder. Her metaphors are drawn from an experience of ages. Her prayers are silent, rapturous communings with the Infinite. Her hymns of praise are the glad songs of birds; her requiems are the meanings of the pines; her symphonies the solemn roaring of the winds. "Sermons in stone" abound at every turn; and if, as the poet has affirmed, "an undevout...
Side 224 - Railroad Co. Not more than 50 feet from Liberty Cap rise the famous Hot Spring Terraces. They constitute a veritable mountain, covering at least 200 acres, the whole of which has been for centuries growing slowly through the agency of hot water issuing from the boiling springs. This, as it cools, leaves a mineral deposit spread out in delicate th in layers by the soft ripples of the heated flood . Strange, is it n- 1?