 I am, on this account, not displeased that the figure is not known as a bald eagle, but looks more like a turkey. For in truth, the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Eagles have been found...  Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin - Seite 135von Benjamin Franklin - 1833Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1905 - 666 Seiten
...turkey is, in comparison, a much more respectable bird, and withal, a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours. He is besides (though a little vain and silly, 'tis true, but none the worse for that) a bird of courage,... | |
 | Franklin Bi-centennial Joint Committee (Boston, Mass.) - 1906 - 132 Seiten
...turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey...Ninth. He is, besides (though a little vain and silly, it is true, but not the worse emblem for that), a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 128 Seiten
...turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey...Ninth. He is, besides (though a little vain and silly, it is true, but not the worse emblem for that), a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 Seiten
...turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey...Ninth. He is, besides (though a little vain and silly, it is true, but not the worse emblem for that), a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 746 Seiten
...withal a true original Native of America. Eagles have been found in all Countries, but the Turk'y was \f peculiar to ours ; the first of the Species seen in...brought to France by the Jesuits from Canada, and serv'd up at the Wedding Table of Charles the Ninth.1 He is, [though a little vain and silly, it is... | |
 | Elizabeth Deering Hanscom - 1908 - 410 Seiten
...is in comparison a much more T 273 respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours. . . . He is, besides, (though a little vain and silly, it is true, but not the worse emblem for that,)... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1909 - 100 Seiten
...turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey...Ninth. He is, besides, (though a little vain and silly, it is true, but not the worse emblem for that,) a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack... | |
 | Elizabeth Deering Hanscom - 1910 - 444 Seiten
...in conipari.«on a much more respectable Uni, and withal a true original native of America, K.iglrs have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to our*. . . . He is, besides, (though a little vain and silly, it is true, but not the worse emblem fi>r... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 298 Seiten
...turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey...and served up at the wedding table of Charles the Ninth.1 He is, besides, (though a little vain and silly, it is true, but not the worse emblem for that,)... | |
 | Angus K. Gillespie - 2003 - 282 Seiten
...turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true native original of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours; ... He is, besides, (though a little vain and silly, it is true, but not the worse emblem for that),... | |
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