 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - 1878 - 472 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - 1882 - 1304 pàgines
...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 of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character; he does nob get hie living honestly." Notwithstanding this objection bj Dr. Franklin,... | |
 | 1883 - 456 pàgines
...a few others who served without pay. Others object to the bald eagle, as looking like a turkey. 9. "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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1884 - 556 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1885 - 456 pàgines
...a few others who served without pay. Others object to the bald eagle, as looking like a turkey. 9. "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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 156 pàgines
...affairs there. In one of his letters to his daughter he makes this criticism on the American eagle : " 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 pàgines
...affairs there. In one of his letters to his daughter he makes this criticism on the American eagle : " 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... | |
 | 1888 - 508 pàgines
...Society of the Cincinnati. From this we make the following extract: 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 pàgines
...affairs there. In one of his letters to his daughter he makes this criticism on the American eagle : " 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 ; yon may have seen him perched on some dead... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pàgines
...other white. Others object to the bald eagle as looking too much like the dindon, or turkey. 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 have seen him perched on some dead... | |
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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... 
