| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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