Birds of the BibleJennings and Graham, 1909 - 467 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 60
Página 27
... seem to form no considerable portion of the earth's surface , but when we remember that from the deck of a vessel sailing the ocean for a thousand miles an average of sixty - three barrels of dust can be swept , we realize that ...
... seem to form no considerable portion of the earth's surface , but when we remember that from the deck of a vessel sailing the ocean for a thousand miles an average of sixty - three barrels of dust can be swept , we realize that ...
Página 41
... seem more humane . Some- times a struggling bird could break a snare or a net ; a gun is usually fatal . I think the very frequent mention of this custom of taking birds in the Bible is due to the fact that there is such a wonderful ...
... seem more humane . Some- times a struggling bird could break a snare or a net ; a gun is usually fatal . I think the very frequent mention of this custom of taking birds in the Bible is due to the fact that there is such a wonderful ...
Página 49
... seem to us so crude as to be wonderful . My reason for wishing to introduce a few of these superstitions and traditions is to set in sharp contrast the natural history of the Bible and that of pagan writers of Greece and Rome , of the ...
... seem to us so crude as to be wonderful . My reason for wishing to introduce a few of these superstitions and traditions is to set in sharp contrast the natural history of the Bible and that of pagan writers of Greece and Rome , of the ...
Página 54
... seems to cover the known world and to discourse on every topic under the sun . We are concerned with volume ten , which is confined to the history of birds . This volume , as well as all the re- mainder of the book , proves indisputably ...
... seems to cover the known world and to discourse on every topic under the sun . We are concerned with volume ten , which is confined to the history of birds . This volume , as well as all the re- mainder of the book , proves indisputably ...
Página 76
... seems to be not a place toward which we are traveling , but a time from which we came , when we face this evidence , that however old Egypt may be , even in the time of Moses she was young compared with China and India , who previous to ...
... seems to be not a place toward which we are traveling , but a time from which we came , when we face this evidence , that however old Egypt may be , even in the time of Moses she was young compared with China and India , who previous to ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Almighty Aristophanes Aristotle beasts beautiful Bible lands Bible writers birds of abomination bittern blue heron brooding cedar chapter chickens cloud color cormorant crane creatures cried David desert doubt doves eagle earth Edom eggs Egypt exquisite eyes feathers feet fish flight flocks fowl Galilee Gennesaret habit hath heaven Hebrew herons Holy Land horned owl Isaiah Jabbok Jeremiah Jerusalem Jesus Jordan knew lapwing Lebanon little owl living Lord mate mentioned Moab Moses mountains neck nest night hawk numbers old version ospray ostrich Palestine partridge peacocks peafowl pelican picture pigeons plains Pliny poet poetic prey quail raven recorded rivers rock sand snare Solomon song sparrows species spices stork STRATTON-PORTER swallow tail temple thee things thou thought tion to-day translation trees unto valleys voice vulture wild wilderness wings wonderful wrote young