| Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold; feeding...themselves; unawed by any thing but man; and from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests,... | |
| Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed hy nature/or hraving the severest cold ; feeding equally on the produce...sea, and of the land; possessing powers of flight capahle of outstripping even the tempests themselves; unawed hy any thing hut man ; and from the ethereal... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding equally upon the produce of the sea, and of the land ; possessing...outstripping even the tempests themselves ; unawed by anything but man ; and from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding equally upon the produce of the sea, and of the land ; possessing...outstripping even the tempests themselves ; unawed by anything but man ; and from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance,... | |
| George Montagu - Birds - 1831 - 670 pages
...chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding...themselves ; unawed by any thing but man : and from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests,... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 426 pages
...chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliff-s of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold; feeding...themselves; unawed by any thing but man; and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests,... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 522 pages
...our lakes, and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding equally upon the produce of the sea and of the land ; possessing...thing but man; and from the etherial heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance, on aa immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes and ocean... | |
| 1831 - 796 pages
...chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding equally on the produce of the sea nnd of the land ; possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves... | |
| 1831 - 472 pages
...chiefly in the vicinity of the seĢ, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding equally on the produce of the sen, and of the land ; possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves... | |
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