 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 Seiten
...instructive and beautiful to be found in the whole range of science. He speaks as an eye-witness. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage, upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forma, with which the galleries... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour - 1851 - 272 Seiten
...man in the scale of civilization. 149. In speaking of the Bohemian coal mines, Buckland remarks, " 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... | |
 | 1855 - 804 Seiten
...colour, it would seem, almost still unchanged. Dr. Buckland remarks of the Bohemian coal mines — " 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... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 784 Seiten
...colour, it would seem, almost still unchanged. Dr. Buckland remarks of the Bohemian coal mines — " 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... | |
 | 1856 - 400 Seiten
...Buckland's Eridgeivater Treatise, though applied by him to the coal mines of Bohemia.* His picturesque * " 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... | |
 | 1857 - 452 Seiten
...efforts of daily practice' ; and these efforts constitute our habits. PHILLIPS. t -Mention Coal ttte-~ c 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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 362 Seiten
...the coal mines, says: "The finest example I have ever witnessed is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegctable forms with which the galleries... | |
 | Walter White - 1857 - 330 Seiten
...The finest example of vegetable remains I have ever witnessed, is that of the coal mines of Bohemia. 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 whicli the galleries... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour - 1859 - 492 Seiten
...metallic treasures of the earth for his use. In speaking of the Bohemian coal mines, Buckland remarks, " 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... | |
 | John Marius Wilson - 1859 - 476 Seiten
...have preserved them in wonderful perfection. Dean Buckland, speaking of those of Bohemia, says — " 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... | |
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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. 
