Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1900)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston, Jefferson Press · leaf 537
nt endure it. And when youve to buy them, youll think whetheltheyre worth reading; which you had better, on all accounts. (Glacier catastrophe, page 91.) With the peculiar scientific sagacity on which Professor Tyndallpiques himself, he has entirely omitted to inquire what would be theresult on a… … given probable outline—say C to D. Does he suppose it would adhereto them like a tapering leech, the line given between c and d ? Thethird sketch shows the actual condition of a portion of a glacier flow-ing from E to F over such a group of rocks as the lower bed of theGlacier des Bois once…
Conduct of life · Aesthetics · Social problems
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![An illustration from The English pilot. [cartographic material] : The fourth book. Describing The West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating The Sea Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also, A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New- Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina. showing, The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. (1775)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-englishpilotcart00thor-96-364.webp)
