 | English literature - 1756 - 724 pages
...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 - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...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 - Agriculture - 1814 - 508 pages
...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 - Malthusianism - 1818 - 550 pages
...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 - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...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 - 970 pages
...Increase of Mankind," written in 1731, has said, " There is no bound to the prolific nature of plants and animals, but what is made by their crowding and interfering with each other's means of subsistence. Were the face of the earth vacant of other plants, it might be gradually... | |
 | J. C. Ross - Economics - 1827 - 486 pages
...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 - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 pages
...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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Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only ; as, for instance, with fennel : and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation... 
