 | Erasmus Darwin - 1804 - 364 pages
...croaking rival scorns, And butts and parries with his branching horns ; There the hoarse stag,}. 521. A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted...purpose, as the very thick shield-like horny skin on the Contending Boars with tusk enamell'd strike, And guard with shoulder-shield the blow oblique ; While... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...the three great objects of desire, which have changed the forms of many animals by their exertions to gratify them, are those of lust, hunger, and security....species, who strike obliquely upwards, nor are his tushes for other purposes, except to defend himself, as he is not naturally a carnivorous animal. So... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1825 - 114 pages
...fluttering wings. Week after week, regardless of her food, The incumbent Linnet warms her future brood ; the desire of the exclusive possession of the females;...species, who strike obliquely upwards, nor are his tushes for other purposes, except to defend himself, as he is not naturally a carnivorous animal. So... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1914 - 926 pages
...enunciated by Erasmus Darwin in his " Zoonomia," first published in 1794? I quote from an edition of 1800. " A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted...acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose. ... So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of... | |
 | Ernst Ludwig Krause - 1879 - 230 pages
...three great objects " of desire, which have changed the forms of " many animals by their exertions to gratify " them, are those of lust, hunger, and...species, who " strike obliquely upwards, nor are his tushes " for other purposes, except to defend himself, " as he is not naturally a carnivorous animal.... | |
 | Ernst Krause - 1879 - 224 pages
...three great objects " of desire, which have changed the forms of " many animals by their exertions to gratify " them, are those of lust, hunger, and...skin on the " shoulder of the boar is a defence only u against animals of his own species, who " strike obliquely upwards, nor are his tushes " for other... | |
 | Ernst Krause - 1880 - 230 pages
...three great objects " of desire, which have changed the forms of " many animals by their exertions to gratify " them, are those of lust, hunger, and...species, who " strike obliquely upwards, nor are his tushes " for other purposes, except to defend himself, " as he is not naturally a carnivorous animal.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1882 - 488 pages
...associations ; and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity. " As air and water are supplied to animals in sufficient...thick, shieldlike, horny skin on the shoulder of the boat- is a defence only against animals of his own species who strike obliquely upwards, nor are his... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 228 pages
...exertions ; . . . and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity. ... A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the female ; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose. . . . The final cause... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 224 pages
...one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the female ; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose. . . . The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be that the strongest and most active... | |
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A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose... 
