 | Tobias Smollett - 1803 - 614 páginas
...spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass ; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence...the wood, Which bears Britannia's thunders on the Hood ; The whale, unmeasured monster of the main, The lordly lion, monarch of the plain, The eagle... | |
 | 1805 - 420 páginas
...spheric glass, " Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass ; " These, as successive generations bloom, " New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume ; " -Whence...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... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1806 - 400 páginas
...bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs aflume ; 300 Whence countlefs groups of vegetation fpring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. "...bears Britannia's thunders on the flood ; The Whale, unmeafured monfter of the main, The lordly Lion, monarch of the plain, The Eagle fbaring in the realms... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 páginas
...&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... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1823 - 816 páginas
...spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass ; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume, Whence...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... | |
 | 1861 - 842 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1875 - 806 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ernst Krause - 1879 - 224 páginas
...spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass ; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume ; Whence...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,... | |
 | Ernst Ludwig Krause - 1879 - 230 páginas
...spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass ; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume ; Whence...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,... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1880 - 156 páginas
...spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire and larger limbs assume, Whence...spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing.1' Here is evolution, differentiation, origin of species — the discovery and the record in glowing... | |
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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... 
