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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. "
The History of the County of Derby - Page 178
by Stephen Glover - 1829
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First Steps to Zoology

Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pages
...mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention, and from their numbers and fecundity. Earthworms, though in...almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating,...
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The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities: Naturalist's Calendar ...

Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 pages
...mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earthworms, though in...almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating,...
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: With Observations on ...

Gilbert White - 1853 - 386 pages
...their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention ; • and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in...which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seems to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring,...
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The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of ...

Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 pages
...often to be seen sucking a spaniel bitch. Many other instances might be brought forward. — KD. from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in...almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating,...
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The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of ...

Gilbert White - 1854 - 532 pages
...often to be seen sucking a spaniel bitch. Many other instai:' might be brought forward. — ED. from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in...Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.* Tor to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by them,...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - 1857 - 462 pages
...mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention; and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in....chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.2 For to say (1) This is not the case at Oxford, for there is a large field which is flooded...
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Earth, Sea and Sky, Or, the Hand of God in the Works of Nature, Volume 1

John Marius Wilson - 1859 - 476 pages
...their numbers and fecundity, earth worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the cham of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some qaadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be great promoters of vegetation....
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The Lithology of Edinburgh

John Fleming - 1859 - 262 pages
...Notwithstanding the range here indicated, he finds room for such observations as these : — " 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...
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The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of ...

Gilbert White - 1861 - 528 pages
...to I'C seen sucking a spaniel bitch. JVIany other instances might be brought forward. — ED. from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in...appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Mature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.* For to say nothing of half the birds, and some...
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The home tutor, a treasury of self-culture

Home tutor - 1862 - 532 pages
...mighty in their effect from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention, and from their numbers and fecundity. Earth-worms, though in...almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating,...
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