The Birds of the BibleJazzybee Verlag, 2017 M02 6 - 308 páginas Gene Stratton-Porter, the Indiana novelist and bird lover, offers the fruits of several years' loving labor in "Birds of the Bible”, a handsome volume. The riches of bird lore that Mrs. Porter has unearthed will surprise anyone who opens the book. "Birds of the Bible " is designed for all lovers of birds in general, and lovers of Bible birds and Bible poetry in particular. It contains every reference made to birds in the Bible: describes the location, and explains the characteristics of the bird. In this book, the author, one of the most successful writers of her days, both as a naturalist and a novelist, has made her greatest effort to do something worth while for the world, having given three years to the preparation of the text. |
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... Jerusalem. " He had seen clouds of birds sweeping the night sky to seek the land in which they homed, and he thought that, like them, the Almighty would fly to the defense of the loved city. But when the people had sinned, and the ...
... Jerusalem. Therefore what he had to say of any bird in comparison with what the compilers of the Old Testament said is of vast importance. Pliny was a Roman of wealth, high position, and had access to all the stored learning of past ...
... Jerusalem, and the effect must have been most beautiful. Many weeds are mentioned in a comparative way, so we infer that industry was required to grow crops then as now. Brambles seem to have referred to thorns, briers, or thickets ...
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