... but man ; and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes, and ocean, deep below him, he appears indifferent to the... Echoes from the Backwoods: Or, Sketches of Transatlantic Life - Seite 253von Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - 1846Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Frederick Saunders - 1877 - 894 Seiten
...Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Wilson, the American ornithologist, says of the bird : " Formed by nature for braving the severest cold, feeding equally on the produce of the sea and of the hind, possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves, unawed by anything... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 Seiten
...chiefly in the vicinity of the sea. and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold, feeding...produce of the sea and of the land, possessing powers of Wight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves, unawed by anything but man, and, from me... | |
| William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 346 Seiten
...chiefly in the vicinity of the sea and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. 2. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding...themselves ; unawed by anything but man ; and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad at one glance on an immeasurable expanse of forests,... | |
| William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 364 Seiten
...chiefly in the vicinity of the sea and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. 2. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding...tempests themselves; unawed by anything but man; and, frum the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad at one glance on an immeasurable expanse... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 Seiten
...ch!>-fly in the vicinity of the sea. aud along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Punned by nature for braving the severest cold, feeding equally on the produce of the sea and of the laud, possessing powers of (light capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves, uuawed by anything... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1882 - 1040 Seiten
...Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Wilson, the American ornithologist, says of the bird : " Formed by nature for braving the severest cold, feeding...themselves, unawed by anything but man, and from the etheral heights from which he soars, looking abroad at one glance on an immeasurable expanse of forests,... | |
| Edward Augustus Samuels - 1883 - 666 Seiten
...and finds cast upon the shore, dead. Wilson, in describing its attacks on the Fish Hawk, says : — " Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding...outstripping even the tempests themselves; unawed by any thing but man; and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance,... | |
| John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - 1883 - 366 Seiten
...from DICKENS'S Child's History of England, 18. THE WHITE-HEADED EAGLE. 1. Formed by nature to brave the severest cold; feeding equally on the produce...outstripping even the tempests themselves; unawed by any thing but man; and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance,... | |
| James William Buel - 1891 - 748 Seiten
...chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding...equally on the produce of the sea and of the land ; NORTH AMERICAN 1IAI.D KAC1I.E possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even tlie tempests... | |
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