 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 796 Seiten
...pay. Others object to the bald eagle as looking too much like a dindon, or turkey. For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative...his living honestly; you may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing-hawk ;... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 Seiten
...patients. In a letter to his daughter, spewing ° eagle as the national symbol of America, he said: " I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative...his living honestly; you may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing-hawk; and,... | |
 | Harland Coultas - 1876 - 312 Seiten
...which he received from Franklin on the subject, who thus quaintly expresses himself : " For my part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative...moral character. He does not get his living honestly." It is nevertheless quite true that the eagle is the king of birds, and holds amongst them deservedly... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - 1877 - 142 Seiten
...Franklin is said to have protested against adopting him as the emblem of America, saying; "For my part I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative...character ; he does not get his living honestly." Notwithstanding this objection by Franklin, the eagle has always constituted a prominent feature in... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - 1877 - 128 Seiten
...Franklin is said to have protested against adopting him as the emblem of America, saying; "For my part I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative...character ; he does not get his living honestly." Notwithstanding this objection by Franklin, the eagle has always constituted a prominent feature in... | |
 | William Fraser Rae - 1877 - 332 Seiten
...the sight. He protested against the eagle being the symbol of his native land, on the ground that " he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly." Though the ingenuity of the citizens of the United States in advertising is indisputable, yet it was... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - 1878 - 472 Seiten
...character the choice does not seem felicitous. So thought Benjamin Franklin. " I wish," he says, " the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative...his living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labours of the fishing-hawk... | |
 | 1881 - 426 Seiten
...Franklin, in one of his admirable letters, observes : " I wish the bald eaglo had not been chosen_as the representative of our country. He is a bird of...character. He does not get his living honestly. You may see him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labour of the... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - 1882 - 1068 Seiten
..."One of them is said to have died at Vienna after being in confinement for ono hundred and four years. wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative...moral character; he does not get his living honestly." Notwithstanding this objection by Dr. Franklin, the eagle has always constituted a prominent feature... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - 1882 - 1304 Seiten
...them ie said to have died at Vienna after being in сопПпсшсЫ for one hundred and fonr reara, wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative...country. He is a bird of bad moral character; he does nob get hie living honestly." Notwithstanding this objection bj Dr. Franklin, the eagle has always... | |
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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... 
