 | Numismatics - 1926 - 628 pages
...Benjamin Franklin had this to say about the selection of the eagle as our national emblem: "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; you may see him perched on some dead tree,... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1895 - 862 pages
...regretted that it was not adopted as the national emblem. He wrote : " For my own part, I wish the Bild 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 his injustice he is never in... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
...Society of the Cincinnati badge : "Others object to the bald eagle as looking too much like a din Jon, or turkey. For my own part, I wish the bald eagle...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... | |
 | Cincinnati (Ohio). Zoological Garden - Zoo animals - 1900 - 116 pages
...the United States, it is interesting to quote what Benjamin Franklin said : "For my 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. Besides, he is a rank coward ; the little... | |
 | Biography - 1901 - 502 pages
...PREFERS THE TURKEY TO THE EAGLE AS OUR NATIONAL BIRD. [Written 1n 1784.] 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 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...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Colson - American letters - 1905 - 174 pages
...our national emblem, the eagle, when it was first adopted by the Society of the Cincinnati in 1783. For my own part I wish the bald eagle had not been...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... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 pages
...PREFERS THE TURKEY TO THE EAGLE AS OUR NATIONAL BIRD [Written in 1784.] 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... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 128 pages
...NATIONAL BIRD [Written in 1784.] Others object to the bald eagle as looking too much like a dimlon or turkey. For my own part, I wish the bald eagle...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Deering Hanscom - American letters - 1908 - 410 pages
...country ^> ^ ^o *c» (To his daughter, from Passy,/a;z. 26, 1784) . . . T^OR my own 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... | |
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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... 
