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Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the ... - Page 134
by Sir Charles Lyell - 1832
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Outlines of botany

Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 1050 pages
...the same kind of admiration is strongly excited when we contemplate the powers of insect and fungus life, in the creation of which nature has been so...individuals, only to be detected by careful research, and often not detectable at all, are ready, in a few days, or weeks, to give birth to myriads, which...
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Outlines of Botany: Including a General History of the Vegetable ..., Volume 1

Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 538 pages
...the same kind of admiration is strongly excited when we contemplate the powers of insect and fungus life, in the creation of which nature has been so...individuals, only to be detected by careful research, and often not detectable at all, are ready, in a few days, or weeks, to give birth to myriads, which...
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Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes ..., Volume 2

Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 582 pages
...creation of which nature has been so prodigal. A scanty number of minute individuals, to be detected only by careful research, are ready in a few days, weeks,...birth to myriads, which may repress any degree of monoply in another species, or remove nuisances, such as dead carcasses, which might taint the air....
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Popular cyclopaedia of natural science (by W.B. Carpenter).

William Benjamin Carpenter - 1841 - 316 pages
...the same kind of admiration is strongly excited when we contemplate the powers of Insect and Fungous life, in the creation of which Nature has been so...individuals, only to be detected by careful research, and often not detectable at all, are ready, in a few days or weeks, to give birth to myriads, which...
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The Living Age, Volume 19

1848 - 640 pages
...the Author of Nature has been so prodigal. A scanty number of minute individuals, to be detected only by careful research, are ready in a few days, weeks, or months, to give birth to myriads ; but no sooner has the destroying commission been executed, tlian the gigantic power becomes dormant."...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 19

Literature - 1848 - 634 pages
...the Author of Nature has been so prodigal. A scanty number of minute individuals, to be detected only by careful research, are ready in a few days, weeks, or months, to give birth to myriads ; but no sooner has the destroying commission been executed, than the gigantic power becomes dormant."...
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Vegetable Physiology and Systematic Botany

William Benjamin Carpenter - Plant anatomy - 1848 - 600 pages
...admiUSES OF FUNGI. 57 ration is strongly excited, when we contemplate the powers of Insect and Fungous life, in the creation of which Nature has been so...individuals, only to be detected by careful research, and often not detectable at all, are ready, in a few days or weeks, to give birth to myriads, which...
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The Flowers Personified: Being a Translation of Grandville's "Les Fleurs ...

J. J. Grandville, Nehemiah Cleaveland - Botany - 1849 - 778 pages
...the same kind of admiration is strongly excited when we contemplate the powers of insect and fungous life, in the creation of which Nature has been so...individuals, only to be detected by careful research, and often not to be detected at all, are ready, in a few days or weeks, to give birth to myriads, which...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 2

Geology - 1855 - 454 pages
...which, when it has effected its purpose, He as rapidly removes. "We see," says Sir Charles Lyell, "that a scanty number of minute individuals, only to be detected by careful research, and often not detectable at all, are ready, in a few days or weeks, to give birth to myriads ; and...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal

Science - 1855 - 900 pages
...when it has effected its purpose, He as rapidly removes. " We see," says Sir Charles Lyell, " that a scanty number of minute individuals, only to be detected by careful research, and often not detectable at all, are ready, in a few days or weeks, to give birth to myriads ; and...
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