 | William John Broderip - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...pay. Others object to the bald eagle, as looking like a dindon, or turkey. For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative...character; he does not get his living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labour... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...object to the bald 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...character : he does not get his living honestly : you may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...clear, nervous style, soon after the question was decided. " For my own part," he says, " I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative...character, he does not get his living honestly ; you may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of... | |
 | Mrs. Horace St. John - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...letters, thus gives his opinion, ' ' I wish " he says, " the White-headed Eagle had not been selected as the representative of our country. He is a bird...character, he does not get his living honestly; you may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labour... | |
 | Mrs. Horace St. John - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...country. He is a bird of bad moral character, he does not get his living honestly ; you may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labour of the fishing hawk, and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest... | |
 | James Mursell Phillippo - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...singular that it was selected as the national emblem. " For my part," says Dr. Franklin, " I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. He is a bird of a bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead... | |
 | William Baird - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...symbol, though Benjamin Franklin does not seem proud of the emblem. " For my part," he says, " I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative...character ; he does not get his living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labours... | |
 | Mrs. Anna Maria (Treadwell) Redfield - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 712
...Dr. Franklin thus speaks of this eagle, the emblem of our national union : "For my part, 1 wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. He is a bird of a bad moral tjiaracter ; he does not get his living honestly. You may have seen him perched upon ^ome... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 96
...White-headed Eagle. It has its wings extended. Benjamin Franklin thus speaks: — " For my part, I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country, lie is a, bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly. You may have seen him perched... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...booty silently away to the woods." Dr. Franklin thus speaks of this Eagle : " For my part, I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative...character ; he does not get his living honestly. You may have seen him perched upon some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches for the... | |
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I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly... 
