 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 758 Seiten
...robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward : the little kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly, and...fit for that order of knights which the French call Chevalier* <T Industrie" We can, indeed, account for the taste which led to this choice, for the descendants... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - 1872 - 396 Seiten
...rank coward ; the little king-bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and drives him eut of the district. He is therefore by no means a prop.er...and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven out all the king-birds from our country, though exactly fitted for that order of knights which the... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - 1873 - 396 Seiten
...robbing, he is generally poor, and very often lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward ; the little king-bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and...and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven out all the king-birds from our country, though exactly fitted for that order of knights which the... | |
 | 1874 - 378 Seiten
...by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor. 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. THE POWER OF IDLENESS. It is a mistake to imagine that only the violent passions, such as ambition... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 Seiten
...robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward; the little kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. • • • "I am on this account, not displeased that the figure [on a medal] is not known as a bald... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - 1878 - 472 Seiten
...by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor Besides, he is a rank coward; the little king-bird, no bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly, and drives him out of the district [reminding one of the way in which Drake and Frobisher, with their small but nimble barks, assailed... | |
 | 1881 - 426 Seiten
...he is generally very poor and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward. The little kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly -and drives him out of the district. I am, on this account, not displeased OLD BANK-NOTES. — Bank of England notes are never re-issued,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 156 Seiten
...robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank coward ; the little kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and...have driven all the king-birds from our country." At last he was able to return to America, and in the fall of 1785 he was again in Philadelphia. His... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 Seiten
...he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank coward ; • the little kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and...proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati J of America, who have driven all the king-birds from our country." At last he was able to return to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 Seiten
...robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank coward ; the little kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and...proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati 1 of America, who have driven all the king-birds from our country." At last he was able to return to... | |
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... 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 among men who live by sharping and robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides... 
