 | John Mason Good - 1826 - 462 sider
...explain completely the admirable economy, habits, and structure even of the most imperceptible insect. There is not a single species that does not, of itself, deserve an historian." * Before we gird ourselves then to a critical indagation into any particular part of... | |
 | 1834 - 438 sider
...explain completely the admirable economy, habits, and structure even of the most imperceptible insect. There is not a single species that does not, of itself, deserve au historian."* • Before we gird ourselves then to a critical indagation into any particular part... | |
 | 1847 - 900 sider
...Exploring Expedition has done, at the expense of millions of treasure, for the icy continent of cternaj sterility in the antarctic ocean, and what the authorities...rather the Pierian spring — the true Helicon? If \ve admit with one author, that man is to be distinguished from brutes by his power of laughing or... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 sider
...they could completely explain the economy, habits, and structure of the most imperceptible insect. There is not a single species that does not of itself deserve an historian. The locomotive, visual, and digestive organs of the small countless beings, that have... | |
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A foreign writer, in alluding to the imperceptible insects, exclaims — " there is not a single species that does not of itself deserve a historian !" Ehrenberg devoted ten years to the Infusoria alone. 