 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 528 pages
...did the world know anything of Staffa, of which Sir Joseph Banks, in a burst of enthusiasm, says, ' 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.'... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 266 pages
...did the world know anything of Staffa, of which Sir Joseph Banks, in a burst of enthusiasm, says, ' 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.'... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1885 - 274 pages
...each side by ranges of basaltic columns, and roofed by the bases of those which have been broken off. Compared to this, what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by man ? — mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared... | |
 | Fiona J. Stafford, Howard Gaskill - 1998 - 284 pages
...columns below, forming an ample pediment; some of these above 60 feet in thickness, from the base to the point, formed by the sloping of the hill on each side,...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.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1778 - 578 pages
...bafe to the point, formed by the Hoping of 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 to thofe of nature.... | |
 | 90 pages
...forming an ample pediment. Some of these above 60 feet in thickness from the base to the point formd by the sloping of the hill on each side almost into the shape of those usd in architecture. Compard to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by man. Mere models... | |
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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. 
