 | several hands - 1774 - 596 pages
...t of thofe ufed in architecture." — Of this particular appearance there } is a good engraving. " Compared to this, what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by man ? mere models or play-things ! imitations as diminutive as his works will always be, when compared to thole of Nature.... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 548 pages
...columns below,. , low, forming an ample pediment; fome of thefe above 60 feet in thicknefs, from the bafe to the point, formed by the floping of the hill on...this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men! mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared... | |
 | 1778 - 630 pages
...thicknefs, from the bale to the point, formed by the flopingof the hill on each fide, almoft into the ihape of thofe ufed in architecture. " Compared to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men ! mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared... | |
 | Uno von Troil, Joseph Banks - 1780 - 440 pages
...columns below, forming an ample pediment ; fome of thefe above fixty feet in thicknefs, from the bafe to the point, formed by the floping of the hill on...almoft into the fhape of thofe ufed in architecture. We proceeded along the fhore, treading upon another Giant's Caufeway, every ftone being regularly formed... | |
 | 512 pages
...below, forming an ample pediment ; fome of thefe are above fixty feet in thicknefs, from the V-afe to the point, formed by the floping of the hill on each fide, almoft into the fhape of thofe ufed in architefture. Compared to this, what are the cathedrals or palaces built by man ? mere models or playthings,... | |
 | John Adams - 1795 - 676 pages
...pediment ; fometimes fixty feet in thicknefs from the bafe " to the point, and formed, by the doping of the hill on " each fide, almoft into the fhape of thofe ufed in architec" turc. Compared to this, what are the cathedrals or palaces " built by men ? mere models or... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1798 - 328 pages
...pediment; iome of thefe above fixty feet in thicknefs, from the bafe to the point, formed by the ftoping of the hill on each fide, almoft into the fhape of...this, what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men ? Mere models, or playthings! imitations, as diminutive as his works v,ill always be, when compared... | |
 | 1801 - 554 pages
...b.ife to the point, formed by the Hoping of the hill on each fide, almolt into the fhape of thofe nfed in architecture. " Compared to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men ! mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1808 - 598 pages
...base to the point, formed by the sloping of the hill on each side, almost into the shape of those used in architecture. Compared to this, what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men ? Mere models er playthings ! imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1809 - 964 pages
...pediment ; fome of thefe above fixty feet in thicknefs, from the bafe to the point, formed by the doping of the hill on each fide, almoft into the fhape of thofe ufed in architecture. * " I cannot but c»prefs the obligations I have to this gentleman for his very kind intentions of... | |
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Compared to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men! mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared to those of nature. 
