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" It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed... "
Daily Life in Victorian England
by Sally Mitchell - 1996 - 311 pages
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

1861 - 1148 pages
...Mr. Webster's statue, at Boston. bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with* birds singing in the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and...crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 19

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1861 - 992 pages
...statue, at Boston. bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bnshes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms...crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so...
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Bericht über die fortschritte der anatomie und physiologie ..., Volume 13

1860 - 694 pages
...interesting to conteinplate an eutangled bank , clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and...these elaborately constructed forms so different from oach other and dependent on each other in so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting...
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Bericht über die Fortschritte der Anatomie und Physiologie

1862 - 638 pages
...allein dieses Urtheil begründen. Darwin sagt hier (p. 490) : „It is interesting to conternplate an entangled bank , clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,...
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The Three Barriers: Notes on Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species."

Gilbert Rorison - 1861 - 192 pages
...earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,...to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms * * * have all been produced by laws acting around us. * * * There is grandeur in this view of life....
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The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system

David Page - 1861 - 278 pages
...law of vital diversity. " It is interesting," he says, in one of the most genial passages in Ms work, "to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many...crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so...
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The Past and Present Life of the Globe: Being a Sketch in Outline of the ...

David Page - 1861 - 276 pages
...of vital diversity. " It is interesting," he says, in one of the most genial passages in his work, "to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many...crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so...
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Nature, Volume 4

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 pages
...such origin. Darwin concludes his great work on "The Origin of Species" with the following words: — "It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank...plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, wiih various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect...
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Nature, Volume 4

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 674 pages
...such origin. Darwin concludes his great work on "The Origin of Species" with the following words: — "It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank...plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, wiih various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect...
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The Great Problem: The Higher Ministry of Nature Viewed in the Light of ...

John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 578 pages
...their proper merits. "It is interesting," says Mr. Darwin at the close of his ' Origin of Species,' " to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many...damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constituted forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner,...
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