| Edmund Burke - History - 1819 - 822 pages
...eagle, as looking too much like a dindon -or turkey. For my own part, 1 wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is...him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to tish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing hawk : and when that diligent bird has at length... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 pages
...own patt, I wish the- bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country • he in a bird of bad moral character : he does not get his...where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing hawk : and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 542 pages
...eagle,' as looking too much like a dindon or turkey. For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country ; he is...where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing hawk ; and when that diligent bird lias at length taken a fish, and is bearing... | |
| History - 1818 - 798 pages
...eagle, as looking too much like a dindon or turkey. For my own part, 1 wisli the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country ; he is...him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to tibh for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing hawk : and when that diligent bird has at length... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1818 - 1264 pages
...turkey. For my own part, 1 wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country j he is a bird of bad moral character : he does not...where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing hawk : and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing... | |
| Peace - 1821 - 524 pages
...II. THE AMERICAN EAGLE." FOB my own part," said Dr.' Franklin, " I wish the bald Eagle fed not been chosen as the Representative of our country. He is...of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestll. You max Voi.n.jVo.r. * have seen him perched on a dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 760 pages
..." as looking too much like a dindon, or turkey. For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country ; he is...the fishing hawk, and, when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - Birds - 1831 - 392 pages
..." as looking too much like a dindon, or turkey. For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country ; he is...living honestly; you may have seen him perched on gome dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labour of the fishing hawk, and,... | |
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