| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1905 - 666 páginas
...part," said he, "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 has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 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 fishinghawk ; and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest... | |
| Massachusetts - 1906 - 128 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... | |
| Franklin Bi-centennial Joint Committee (Boston, Mass.) - 1906 - 124 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... | |
| Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 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 - 1906 - 746 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 living honestly; you may have seen him perch'd on some dead Tree, near the River where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour... | |
| Elizabeth Deering Hanscom - 1908 - 410 páginas
...part, I wish that 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. . . . With all this injustice he is never in good case ; but, like those among men who live by sharping... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1909 - 100 páginas
...his daughter], 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... | |
| William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 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...him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to n\h for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing hawk, and when that diligent bird has at length... | |
| Mary Clare Wilson Spencer, Michigan State Library - 1916 - 76 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 Dr. Franklin, the eagle has always constituted a prominent feature... | |
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