 | Harland Coultas - 1876 - 312 páginas
...For my part, 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." It is nevertheless quite true that the eagle is the king of birds, and holds amongst them deservedly... | |
 | William Fraser Rae - 1877 - 332 páginas
...sight. He protested against the eagle being the symbol of his native land, on the ground that " he is a bird of bad moral character ; he does not get his living honestly." Though the ingenuity of the citizens of the United States in advertising is indisputable, yet it was... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - 1877 - 128 páginas
..."For my part 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." Notwithstanding this objection by Franklin, the eagle has always constituted a prominent feature in... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - 1877 - 142 páginas
..."For my part 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." Notwithstanding this objection by Franklin, the eagle has always constituted a prominent feature in... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - 1878 - 472 páginas
...I wish," he says, " 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...where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labours of the fishing-hawk ; and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing... | |
 | 1881 - 426 páginas
...observes : " I wish the bald eaglo 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. You may see him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labour of the... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - 1882 - 1068 páginas
...and four years. 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." Notwithstanding this objection by Dr. Franklin, the eagle has always constituted a prominent feature... | |
 | 1883 - 456 páginas
...my own part, 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...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 it to his nest... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1884 - 558 páginas
...my own part, 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...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 it to his nest... | |
 | 1885 - 456 páginas
...my own part, 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...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 it to his nest... | |
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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... 
