 | Gilbert White - 1867 - 542 pages
...be brought forward. — ED. f">\-, their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in ar;;earance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.* Por to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are... | |
 | 1869 - 542 pages
...is of great use to man. " Earth-worms," says Gilbert White, in his " Natural History of Selborne," " though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are... | |
 | Scientific and technical reader - 1869 - 408 pages
...which renders them less an object of attraction ; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...which renders them less an object of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are... | |
 | William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 pages
...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 the many species... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 pages
...which renders them less an object of attention ; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are... | |
 | Harland Coultas - 1876 - 312 pages
...serpents than worms. "Earth-worms," says the Rev. Gilbert White, in his "Natural History of Selborne," " though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet if lost would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds and a. Minute apertures on either... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 pages
...which renders them less an object of attention ; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds, and -some quadrupeds which are... | |
 | 1878 - 740 pages
...which renders them less an object of attention ; and from their numl>ers and fecundity. Karth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet if lost would mnko a lamentable chasm . . . worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 pages
...which renders them less an object of attention ; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are... | |
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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. 
