 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1836 - 174 Seiten
...Bucklanq, in speaking of the splendid exhibitions of fossil plants in the coal mines of Bohemia, says; " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines... | |
 | 1837
...says, ' The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal-mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines... | |
 | 1837 - 1822 Seiten
...says, ' The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal-mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines... | |
 | 1837 - 608 Seiten
...coal mines of Bohemia he observed the finest examples of distinctly preserved vegetable remains. ' The most elaborate ' imitations of living foliage...ceilings of Italian ' palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of ex' tinct vegetable forms by which the galleries are overhung. ' The roof is... | |
 | 1837 - 1040 Seiten
...says, ' The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal-mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear na comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1839 - 830 Seiten
...will be continually bringing to light." In giving an account of the coal mines in" Bohemia he says, "the most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beautious profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines... | |
 | Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 Seiten
...were embellished. " The most elaborate imitations," he says in a passage no less elegant than just, " of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetableforms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 Seiten
...instructive and beautiful, to be found in the whole range of science. He speaks as an eyewitness. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage, upon...ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines... | |
 | 1840 - 430 Seiten
...which arc still discoverable In it. Professor Buckland, speaking of the coal-mines of Bohemia, says, " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1840 - 328 Seiten
...Bohemia are particularly beautiful, and the following description is too graphic to be omitted here. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon...ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines... | |
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The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung. 
