The Quarterly Review, Volume 74William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1844 - English literature |
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... Glaciers . By James D. Forbes , F.R.S. , & c . IV . - The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon , including his Correspondence , and Selections from the Anecdote Book , written by himself . By Horace Twiss , Esq . , one of ...
... Glaciers . By James D. Forbes , F.R.S. , & c . IV . - The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon , including his Correspondence , and Selections from the Anecdote Book , written by himself . By Horace Twiss , Esq . , one of ...
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... glacier districts of the Pennine Alps , from the western slopes of Mont Blanc on the one hand , to the eastern sides ... glaciers , and the careful study of whatever might tend to the establishment of the true theory of these great ...
... glacier districts of the Pennine Alps , from the western slopes of Mont Blanc on the one hand , to the eastern sides ... glaciers , and the careful study of whatever might tend to the establishment of the true theory of these great ...
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... glacier , in the ordinary acceptation of the term : - The common form of a glacier is a river of ice filling a valley , and pouring down its mass into other valleys yet lower . It is not a frozen * Mr. Moore sings of Eastern Alps ...
... glacier , in the ordinary acceptation of the term : - The common form of a glacier is a river of ice filling a valley , and pouring down its mass into other valleys yet lower . It is not a frozen * Mr. Moore sings of Eastern Alps ...
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... glacier , or gathered ripe cherries from the tree with one foot standing on the ice . ' Thus much , then , is plain , that the existence of the glacier in com- paratively warm and sheltered situations , exposed to every influence which ...
... glacier , or gathered ripe cherries from the tree with one foot standing on the ice . ' Thus much , then , is plain , that the existence of the glacier in com- paratively warm and sheltered situations , exposed to every influence which ...
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... glacier , where its huge wedges seem to furrow up the ' clods of the valley , ' is usually steep , broken , and nearly inaccessible ; its intermediate portion , if not level , is at least more regularly inclined ; its upper part becomes ...
... glacier , where its huge wedges seem to furrow up the ' clods of the valley , ' is usually steep , broken , and nearly inaccessible ; its intermediate portion , if not level , is at least more regularly inclined ; its upper part becomes ...
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