 | William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1812 - 654 pages
...idea, as it would, in a very short time, outstrip all Calculation. A single Herring, it is affirmed, if suffered to multiply unmolested and undiminished...twenty years, would shew a progeny greater in Bulk than Ten such Globes as that we live upon ; but happily the balance of Nature is exactly preserved, and... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...short space defy calculation. A single herring, if suffered to multiply unmolested, and undiminisheil for twenty years, would shew a progeny greater in bulk than the globe itself. It is owing to this exuberant fertility that the herring, the pilchard, and some others, are... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...powers of fecundity in this division exceed belief, and in a short space defy calculation. A single herring, if suffered to multiply unmolested, and undiminished for twenty years, would show a progeny greater in, bulk than the globe itself. It is owing to this exuberant fertility that... | |
 | Chapbooks - 1820 - 188 pages
...these animals, exceeds our idea, as it would, in a very short time, outstrip all calculation. A single herring, if suffered to multiply unmolested and undiminished...twenty years, would shew a progeny greater in bulk than ten such globes as that we live upon ; and the roe of the cod has been found to contain three millions... | |
 | John Mason Good - Medicine - 1823 - 508 pages
...The power of fecundity in fishes surpasses all calculation, and appears almost incredible. A single herring, if suffered to multiply unmolested, and undiminished for twenty years, would show a progeny greater in bulk than the globe itself. This species, as also the pilchard, and some... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Zoology - 1824 - 510 pages
...these animals exceeds our idea, as it would, in a very short time, outstrip all calculation. A single herring, if suffered to multiply unmolested and undiminished for twenty years, would show a progeny greater in bulk than ten such globes as that we live upon. But happily the balance of... | |
 | 1830 - 644 pages
...exhaustible? Would not these double in twenty-five years? If the experiments of the great Lewenhoek were true, and I never heard of their being doubted,...would shew a progeny greater in bulk than the globe itself." '—pp. 68—70. Now it is perfectly evident that Mr. Sadler, in the first place, is utterly... | |
 | Books - 1830 - 644 pages
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 | Charles Putt - Jurisprudence - 1830 - 496 pages
...experiments of the great Lewenhoeck were true, and I never heard of their being doubted, Bradley has shown, that, according to a very moderate calculation, a...increase, in ten years, into about a thousand myriads of myriads—a sum which we may more easily write than apprehend; and that a herring, if suffered to multiply... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 358 pages
...animals exceeds our idea, as it would, in a very short time, outstrip all calculation : and a single herring, if suffered to multiply unmolested and undiminished for twenty years, would show a progeny greater in bulk than ten such globes as that we live upon. Although the usual way with... | |
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This power of increasing in these animals exceeds our idea, as it would, in a very short time, outstrip all calculation. A single herring, if suffered to multiply unmolested and undiminished for twenty years, would show a progeny greater in bulk than... 
