 America who have driven all the king birds from our country, though exactly fit for that order of knights which the French call chevaliers d'industrie. I am on this account not displeased that the figure is not known as a bald eagle, but looks more like...  Ornithological Biography - Page 164by John James Audubon - 1832Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1818 - 1264 pages
...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...knights which the French call Chevaliers d'Industrie. I am on this account, not displeased that the figure is not known as a bald eagle, but looks more like... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 pages
...robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward: the little King-Bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly, and...knights which the French call Chevaliers d'Industrie.' With regañí tu the Reproduction, M. Audubim says that incubation commences in the beginning of January.... | |
 | John James Audubon - Birds - 1840 - 388 pages
...shores of the Mississippi. In concluding this account of the White-headed Eagle, suffer me, kind reader, to say how much I grieve that it should have been...knights which the French call Chevaliers d'Industrie." BALD EAGLE, Fako Haliaelus, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iv. p. 89. Adult. SEA EAGLE, Fako ossifragus, Wils.... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1843 - 442 pages
...means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven all king-birds from our country, though exactly fit for that order...knights which the French call Chevaliers d'Industrie ;" and also, for that order, undreamt of by the philosopher and patriot and honest man, from whose... | |
 | 1850 - 758 pages
...a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven all the king-birds from our country, though exactly fit for that order...knights which the French call Chevaliers d'Industrie. I am, on this account, not displeased that the figure is not known as a bald eagle, but looks more... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 640 pages
...STATES POST-OFFICE GUIDE. brave and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven all the lting-birds from our country ; though exactly fit for that order...knights which the French call chevaliers d'industrie." These bald eagles are, indeed, sad thieves, not confining themselves to fish or such small deer. Mr.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven all the king-Urds from our country; though exactly fit for that order...knights which the French call Chevaliers d'Industrie. I am, on this account, not displeased that the figure is not known as a bald eagle, but looks more... | |
 | William Baird - Libraries--Special collections--Rare books - 1858 - 642 pages
...the fishing-hawk ;ind when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to bis nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the...knights which the French call Chevaliers d'Industrie." The fishing eagle, bald buzzard, fish hawk, or osprey, Pandian haliccetu», is also a native of America,... | |
 | Animals - 1885 - 456 pages
...a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven all the king-birds from our country, though exactly fit for that order...knights which the French call chevaliers d'Industrie. I am, on this account, not displeased that the figure is not known as a bald eagle, but looks more... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 128 pages
...a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven all the king-birds from our country; though exactly fit for that order...knights which the French call Chevaliers d'Industrie. I am, on this account, not displeased that the figure is not known as a bald eagle, but looks more... | |
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