 | William Bingley - 1803 - Страниц: 624
...(which renders them less an object of attention,) and from their numbers and fecundity. Dew-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, might make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds and some quadrupeds which are... | |
 | Charles Fothergill - 1813 - Страниц: 288
...these poor * History of Selbornc, vol. ip 364. despised animals ; for he has well observed, that " Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable...Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 872
...extremity of the earthworm, resembling a good deal the medullary matter of the brain *. Dew-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, might make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds and some quadrupeds which are... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1829 - Страниц: 600
...their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention than their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable...nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by them,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1829 - Страниц: 364
...minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention ; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable...Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by them,... | |
 | 1829 - Страниц: 516
...minuteness, which render them !*•" an object of attention ; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable...Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half tb>birds, and some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by them,... | |
 | 1829 - Страниц: 642
...render them less an object of attention ; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though iu appearance a small and despicable link in the chain...Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supjsirted by... | |
 | 1829 - Страниц: 520
...attention ; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and df«picable link in the chain of Nature, yet, If lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half tile birds, and some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - Страниц: 380
...are mighty in their effects, from their numbers and fecundity. Dew-worms, in appearance, constitute a small and despicable link in the chain of nature ; yet, if this link were destroyed, it would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of many species of... | |
 | Mary Anne Cragg - 1830 - Страниц: 260
...their effects, from the circumstance of their numbers and great fecundity. The garden or lob-worm, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, might make a lamentable chasm. For, besides that half the birds and many small quadrupeds are supported... | |
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Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. 
