 ... stopped at once. The geysers are more than worthy of preservation. It is not only that they constitute a superb spectacle in themselves: they are likewise unique, both in performance and design. Nature, abandoning for the time all thoughts of utility,...  Engineer Historical Studies - Страница 261979Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, William Ludlow, United States. War Department - 1876 - 184 страници
...abandoning for the time all thoughts of utility, seems to have been amusing herself in this far-off and long-hidden corner of the world by devoting some...centuries probably, have built up miracles of art, of an ^nduring though brittle material, that can be ruined in flve minutes by a vandal armed with an Destruction... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, William Ludlow, United States. War Department - 1876 - 182 страници
...abandoning for the time all thoughts of utility, seems to have been amusing herself in this far-off and long-hidden corner of the world by devoting some...centuries probably, have built up miracles of art, of an ,nduring though brittle material, that can be ruined in five minutes by a vandal armed with an Destruction... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1876 - 864 страници
...her grandest and most mysterious powers to the 38 с E / production of forms of majesty and beauty such as man may not hope to rival. The geysers, in...miracles of art, of an enduring though brittle material, tbat can be ruined in five minutes by a vandal armed with an ax. and nearly all th« craters show signs... | |
 | William Ludlow - 1876 - 168 страници
...abandoning for the time all thoughts of utility, seems to have been amusing herself in this far-off and long-hidden corner of the world by devoting some...mysterious powers to the production of forms of majesty and beauty such as man may not hope to rival. The geysers, in the slow process of centuries probably, have... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1876 - 876 страници
...abandoning for the time all thoughts of utility, seems to have been amusing herself in this far-off and long-hidden corner of the world by devoting some...of her grandest and most mysterious powers to the 38 с E production of forms of majesty and beauty such as man may not hope to. rival. The geysers,... | |
 | Kenneth Huntress Baldwin - 1976 - 138 страници
..."abandoning for the time all thoughts of utility, seems to have been amusing herself in this far-off and long-hidden corner of the world by devoting some...mysterious powers to the production of forms of majesty and beauty such as man may not hope to rival." Yet nearly everywhere he turned he witnessed men and women... | |
 | William C. Everhart - 1998 - 268 страници
...abandoning for the time all thoughts of utility, seems to have been amusing herself in this far-off and long-hidden corner of the world by devoting some...mysterious powers to the production of forms of majesty and beauty such as any man may not hope to rival." Ludlow's enjoyment was dampened by the "hopeless and... | |
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