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" Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs... "
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 360
edited by - 1803
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The Temple of Nature, Or, The Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical ...

Erasmus Darwin - 1804 - 364 pages
...watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume ; 300 Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. fetus becornes thus oxygenated from the passing stream of the maternal arterial blood ; exactly as...
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The Literary Miscellany, Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of ...

1805 - 420 pages
...retain, digest, secrete, eject. " Organic! life beneath the shoreless waves cant. 1. 1. 255, " Was botn and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves ; " First forms...And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing." ..Much comment on this theory of " organic mud" is unnecessary. It contains in its muddy mass the seeds...
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The temple of nature

Erasmus Darwin - 1806 - 400 pages
...bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs aflume ; 300 Whence countlefs groups of vegetation fpring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. "...the wood, Which bears Britannia's thunders on the flood ; The Whale, unmeafured monfter of the main, The lordly Lion, monarch of the plain, The Eagle...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 7

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 pages
...&e. ; and not a vital habit of the body, as some philosophers maintained. The mind is considered as Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. Canto. 1. b. 295. &c. If Lucretius had been a chemist, vre should probably have found many kindred...
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The Republican, Volume 8

Richard Carlile - 1823 - 816 pages
...Lite's subtle woof, in nature's loom is wove. ORGANIC LITE, beneath the shoreless waves, Was born, and nurs'd, in ocean's pearly caves, First forms minute...And breathing realms, of fin, and feet, and wing." Although Doctor Darwin was a close observer of nature, a man of great scientific acquirements, a great...
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The Temple of Nature: Or, The Origin of Society, a Poem with Philosophical Notes

Erasmus Darwin - 1825 - 114 pages
...spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass ; These, as successive generations bloom, 299 New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume ; Whence...the wood, Which bears Britannia's thunders on the flood; The whale, unmeasured monster of the main, The lordly lion, monarch of the plain, The eagle...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 89

1861 - 842 pages
...These, as successive generations bloom. New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume, Whence counties' groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing." " Hence, ere Vitality, as time revolves. Leaves the cold on,'an, or the mass dissolves, The reproductions...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 7

1875 - 806 pages
...spheric glasa, Move on the mud or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom. Now powers acquire, and larger limbs assume, Whence countless...groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fln, and feet, and wing." In a note combating the " prejudices " against the doctrine of spontaneous...
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Erasmus Darwin

Ernst Krause - 1879 - 224 pages
...life originated in the " shoreless " sea : — " Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born, and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves ; First forms minute,...And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing." In the continuation of these verses (lines 295-302) the author recalls to mind that the higher animals,...
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Erasmus Darwin, tr. by W.S. Dallas

Ernst Ludwig Krause - 1879 - 230 pages
...life originated in the " shoreless " sea : — " Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born, and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves ; First forms minute,...And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing." In the continuation of these verses (lines 295-302) the author recalls to mind that the higher animals,...
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