 | 1850 - 758 pages
...General Washington and a few others who served without pay. Others object to the bald eagle, as looking like a dindon, or turkey. For my own part, I wish...the representative of our country : he is a bird of l>ad moral character ; he does not get his living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 682 pages
...following character, given to it by the celebrated Benjamin Franklin : — "' For my part (says 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 living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 640 pages
...following character, given to it by the celebrated Benjamin Franklin : — " For my part (says 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 living honestly. You may have seen him perched nn some dead... | |
 | William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1852 - 446 pages
...General Washington and a few others who served without pay. Others object to the bald eagle, as looking like a dindon, or turkey. For my own part, I wish...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 perched on some dead... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...any but General Washington, and a few others who served without pay. Others object to the bald eagle, as looking too much like a dindon or turkey. For my...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 perched on some dead... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - Agriculture - 1853 - 550 pages
...his plain, 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 of our 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... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - History - 1855 - 440 pages
...being the bald eagle, is not an honourable emblem of America. In one of his letters he observes: —" 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 see him perched on some dead tree,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 304 pages
...Natioaalities.— THE AMERICAN EAGLE. DR. FRANKLIN, in one of his admirable Letters, observes : " I wish tho 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 see him perched on some dead tree,... | |
 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 266 pages
...Nationalities.— dignities. THE AMERICAN EAGLE. DR. FRANKLIN, in one of his admirable Letters, observes : " I wish the bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country : he ia a bird of bad moral character ; he does not got his living honestly ; you may see him perched on... | |
 | Mrs. Anna Maria (Treadwell) Redfield - Zoology - 1858 - 712 pages
...on rocks. 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 dead tree,... | |
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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... 
