 | Edmund Burke - History - 1819 - 822 pages
...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...all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours ; the first of the species seen in Europe being brought to France by the Jesuits from Canada, arid... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 pages
...gmeisJBOfcScnawn-aHia bald ca^le, but looks more like a turkey. For in truth, 1 he turkey -is an comparison a much more respectable -bird, and withal a true original native...all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours ; (be first of the species seen in Europe, being brought to France by the Jesuits from Canada, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1818 - 1264 pages
...a turkey. For in truth, the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true a true original native of America. Eagles have been...all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours ; the first of the species seen in Europe being brought to France by the Jesuits from Canada, and served... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 542 pages
...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...Eagles have been found in all countries, but ' The white-headed erne, or bald eagle, (falco leucocephalus• LINN.) peculiar to North America ; and the... | |
 | History - 1818 - 798 pages
...is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Katies have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to our-- ; the first of the species seen in 1'Jurope being brought to France by the Jesuits from Canada,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...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...ours. He is besides, (though a little vain and silly, 'tis true, but not the worse emblem for that,) a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...comparison, a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Eagles hare been found in all countries, but the Turkey was peculiar...ours. He is besides, (though a little vain and silly, 'tis true, but not the worse emblem for that,) a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack... | |
 | 1830 - 548 pages
...like a turkey. For, in truth, the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal u true original native of America. Eagles have been...all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours; the first of the species seen in Europe, being brought to France by the Jesuits from Canada, and served... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 760 pages
...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...ours. He is, besides, (though a little vain and silly, 'tis true, but not the worse emblem for that,) a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1833 - 490 pages
...leucocepkalut. LINN.) peculiar to North America; aud the emblem adopted by the society of Cincinnati. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours ; the first of the species seen in Europe, being brought to France by the Jesuits from Canada, and... | |
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... 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 a turkey. For, in truth, the turkey is in comparison a much... 
