| 1756 - 724 sider
...a hundred years exportation of Да ves, that has blackened half America ? 22. There is, in Ihort, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals, but what is made by their crouding and interfering with each other's means of fubfiftence. Was the face of the earth vacant of... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1779 - 610 sider
...rather than to the expulfion of the Moors, or to th« making of new feWlements. 22. There is, in fhort, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of fubliftence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be graC dually... | |
| Great Britain. Board of Agriculture - 1814 - 508 sider
...their comfortable subsistence. This law indeed regulates all animated life ; and it is justly remarked by Dr Franklin, " That there is no bound to the prolific nature of animals and plants, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence."... | |
| Simon Gray - 1818 - 550 sider
...animal life, to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it, is an observation of Dr. Franklin. " It is observed by Dr. Franklin, that there is no bound...is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth," he says, " vacant of other plants, it might... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 sider
...rather than to the expulsion of the Moors, or to the making of new settlements. 22. There is, in short, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually... | |
| 1821 - 356 sider
...rather than to the expulsion of the Moors, or to the making of new settlements. 22. There is, in short, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1826 - 566 sider
...human improvement, would be much beyond the power of an individual. The principal object of VOL. I. B the present essay is to examine the effects of one...is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1826 - 566 sider
...these effects may be reckoned a very considerable por• tion of that vice and misery, and of tfiat unequal distribution of the bounties of nature, which...is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of !be earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might... | |
| J. C. Ross - 1827 - 486 sider
...the power of increase, implanted in all animated life, is the one great cause of human unhappiness." That " there is no bound to the prolific nature of...is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence, is a great truth," and shews the wisdom of the universal Creator; since,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 584 sider
...rather than to the expulsion of the Moors, or to the making of new settlements. 22. There is, in short, no bound to the prolific nature of plants or animals,...is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Was the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually... | |
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