 | John Harris - 1854 - 316 pages
...sustenance of other forms of life. " Consider (says Professor Owen in his Lectures on the Invertebrate?) their incredible numbers, their universal distribution,...ever-active invisible scavengers, for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all : they perform a still more important office in preventing the gradual... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1855 - 1196 pages
...important offices of the economy of nature, on which our own well-being more or less immediately depends. Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...of decaying vegetable and animal bodies which they arc appointed to devour and assimilate. Surely we must in some degree be indebted to these ever active... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 800 pages
...artificial aids ! Of these many are naked, but many also have shells. And now, with the Professor, Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...must in some degree be indebted to these ever-active scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all: they perform a still more important... | |
 | 1858 - 594 pages
...performing is calculated vastly to extend our ideas of the wonderful economy of the universe. ' When we consider their incredible numbers, their universal...voracity, and that it is the particles of decaying bodies which they alre appointed to devour, we must conclude that we are in some degree indebted to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 598 pages
...performing is calculated vastly to extend our ideas of the wonderful economy of the universe. ' When we consider their incredible numbers, their universal...voracity, and that it is the particles of decaying bodies which they are appointed to devour, we must conclnde that we are in some degree indebted to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...performing is calculated vastly to extend our ideas of the wonderful economy of the universe. " When vre consider their incredible numbers, their universal...voracity, and that it is the particles of decaying bodies which they are appointed to devour, we must conclude that we are in some degree indebted to... | |
 | 1859 - 852 pages
...and •' extend their reign in the northern latitudes beyond that of the vegetable kingdom." "When we consider their incredible numbers, their universal...voracity, and that it is the particles of decaying bodies which they are appointed to devour, we mint conclude that we are in some degree indebted to... | |
 | 1859 - 910 pages
..."their incredible numbers, their universal distribution, their insatiable voracity ; nnd that it is tho particles of «decaying vegetable and animal bodies...they are appointed to devour and assimilate. Surely wo must in some degrco bo indebted to these e ver -activo scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...important affairs of the economy of nature, on which our own well-being more or less immediately depends. " Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...of decaying vegetable and animal bodies which they arc appointed to devour and assimilate. Surely we must, in some degree, be indebted to these ever-active,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1861 - 602 pages
...ant offices of the economy of nature, on which our own well-being more or loss immediately depends. " Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...assimilate. Surely we must in some degree be indebted to those ever-active invisible scavengers for the sulubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all ; they... | |
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Consider their incredible numbers, their universal distribution, their insatiable voracity; and that it is the particles of decaying vegetable and animal bodies which they are appointed to devour and assimilate. Surely we must in some degree be indebted... 
