 | Tobias Smollett - 1803 - 624 σελίδες
...spread! Erelong, a$d deluge their terraqueous bed : ; But war, and pestilence, disease, and (iearth, Sweep the superfluous myriads from the earth. Thus while new forms reviving trib«s acquire Each passing'moment, as the old expire jj Like insects swarming in the noontide bower,... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1804 - 242 σελίδες
...culves ami cows, But ' man erect, with thought elate,' Mast ' duck' to death his stubborn pate. 80 ' But war and pestilence, disease and dearth ' Sweep the superfluous myriads from the earth. Temple of Mature, Canto iv. Some unphilosophical theorists have foolishly supposed that this sweeping... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1806 - 326 σελίδες
...climate friended, and by food sustain'd O'er seas and soils prolifick hordes would spread Ere long, and deluge their terraqueous bed. But war and pestilence,...dearth Sweep the superfluous myriads from the earth." Temfile of Nature •, Canto iv. Some uwphilosophical theorists have foolishly supposed that this sweeping... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1806 - 400 σελίδες
...deluge their terraqueous bed ; But war, and peftilence, difeafe, and dearth, Sweep the fuperfluous myriads from the earth. Thus while new forms reviving tribes acquire Each paffing moment, as the old expire ; Like infects fwarming in the noontide bower, Rife into being, and... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1837 - 300 σελίδες
...climate friended, and by food sustained O'er seas and soils prolific hordes would spread Ere long, and deluge their terraqueous bed. But war and pestilence,...dearth Sweep the superfluous myriads from the earth." Temple of Nature, Canto iv. But " man erect, with thought elate," Must " duck" to death his stubborn... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 σελίδες
...canto 4, 11. 369-82: So human progenies, if unrestrain'd, By climate friended, and by food sustain 'd, O'er seas and soils, prolific hordes! would spread...dearth Sweep the superfluous myriads from the earth. . . The births and deaths contend with equal strife, And every pore of Nature teems with Life; Which... | |
 | James Richard Moore - 2002 - 456 σελίδες
...of Nature, p. 159: So human progenies, if unrestrain'd, By climate friended, and by food sustain'd, O'er seas and soils, prolific hordes would spread...dearth, Sweep the superfluous myriads from the earth . . . The births and deaths contend with equal strife, And every pore of Nature teems with Life; Which... | |
 | David Amigoni - 2007 - 12 σελίδες
...The Temple of Nature: So human progenies, if unrestrain'd, By climate friended, and by food sustain'd O'er seas and soils, prolific hordes! would spread...swarming in the noontide bower, Rise into being and exist in an hour; The births and deaths contend with equal strife, And every pore of Nature teems with Life... | |
 | Christa Knellwolf King, Jane R. Goodall - 2008 - 252 σελίδες
...'lower animals' alike: So human progenies, if unrestrain'd, By climate friended, and by food sustain'd, O'er seas and soils, prolific hordes! Would spread Erelong, and deluge their terraqueous bed . . . Like insects swarming in the noontide bower, Rise into being, and exist an hour; The births and... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1806 - 498 σελίδες
....thought with Malthus. Human progenies, if unrestraln,d> By climate friended, and by food sustain' d, Oer seas and soils, prolific hordes ! would spread,....terraqueous bed : But war, and pestilence, disease and death, tial evils, at least as well founded as those of a pati. cut, who reasonably applies the known... | |
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O'er seas and soils, prolific hordes! would spread Erelong, and deluge their terraqueous bed; But war, and pestilence, disease, and dearth, Sweep the superfluous myriads from the earth. 