 ... and, when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case ; but, like those...  The Living Age ... - Seite 1631851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Burke - 1819
...the fishing hawk : and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the...very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward : the little king bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and dines him out of the district. He is therefore... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1817
...diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate ami young ones, the bald eagle pursues him, and takes it from him. With all this injustice lie is never in good case, but like 'tfaoie :atnotig men who live by sharping and robbing, he' is.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818
...the fishing hawk : and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the...very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward : the little king bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818
...the fishing hawk ; and when that diligent bird lias at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the...very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward : the little king bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818
...the fishing hawk : and when that diligent bird has at length taken и fish, and is bearingit to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the...but like those among men who live by sharping and rubbing, he is gene rally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward : the little king... | |
 | 1821
...that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to Ins nest, for the support of bin mate and young ones, the bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is seldom in good case, but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbery, he is generally poor... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827
...on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the Fishing Hawk ; and when that diligent bird has at length taken a...often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward ; the littlr; Kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly, and drives him out of the district.... | |
 | 1830
...labour of the fishing hawk ; and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and bears it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the...is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, ho is a rank coward : the little king-bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and drives... | |
 | 1830
...fishing hawk ; and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and bears it to his nest tor the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle...but like those among men who live by sharping and robbiug, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward : the little king-bird,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831
...the fishing hawk, and, when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the...generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rauk coward ; the little kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly, and drives him out... | |
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