The Harmonies of Nature; Or, The Unity of CreationLongmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 406 páginas |
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... serve as a unity of measure ; we are obliged to travel on the wings of light , which in a second leaves 200,000 miles behind , to be able to express , in a few numbers , distances which exceed the utmost limits of our conception . A ray ...
... serve as a unity of measure ; we are obliged to travel on the wings of light , which in a second leaves 200,000 miles behind , to be able to express , in a few numbers , distances which exceed the utmost limits of our conception . A ray ...
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... serve , moreover , a double purpose ; for besides their use as food , they fix , by means of the extensive ramifications of their roots , the constantly shifting sands , thus rendering services similar to those of the sand - reed on the ...
... serve , moreover , a double purpose ; for besides their use as food , they fix , by means of the extensive ramifications of their roots , the constantly shifting sands , thus rendering services similar to those of the sand - reed on the ...
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... , new roots issue in a truly wonderful manner from the stem or the lower branches , and , fixing themselves in the ground , serve as MANGROVE FORESTS . 59 69 additional props to the weatherbeaten 58 THE HARMONIES OF NATURE .
... , new roots issue in a truly wonderful manner from the stem or the lower branches , and , fixing themselves in the ground , serve as MANGROVE FORESTS . 59 69 additional props to the weatherbeaten 58 THE HARMONIES OF NATURE .
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... serve as hold - fasts in the crevices of old walls or trees ; and others , again , like the vine , climb upwards by means of tendrils , which , grow- ing out of the axillæ of the leaves , wind round neighbouring objects , and prop the ...
... serve as hold - fasts in the crevices of old walls or trees ; and others , again , like the vine , climb upwards by means of tendrils , which , grow- ing out of the axillæ of the leaves , wind round neighbouring objects , and prop the ...
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... serving for their own preservation , renders them also eminently useful to man . Although unable to move from the spot , and thus to avoid by a timely flight the attacks of their enemies , the plants have not been left defenceless ...
... serving for their own preservation , renders them also eminently useful to man . Although unable to move from the spot , and thus to avoid by a timely flight the attacks of their enemies , the plants have not been left defenceless ...
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