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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 42
... habits and characteristics, which is mostly used as the basis of comparisons of bird life with man, form our very earliest records. Moses first wrote of the birds when he specified those which were not to be used for food, while ...
... habits of the birds when he gave the warning, "Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high." Throughout the Bible there is constant mention of the practices of snaring and netting birds ...
... habits and characteristics so poetical, that with the added knowledge of the centuries lying between their time and ours, no man has surpassed them in drawing wonderful comparisons between the life of birds and human beings. Of writers ...
... habit," without in the least indicating what the color and habit was; and again he said that others were "bad." He described one bird as "faulty, both in its color and in its voice." His store of unexpected adjectives in birdlore is a ...
... habits, or characteristics, they attempt to reproduce birds and make amazing caricatures. In the first place, many artists go to museums and draw from a dried skin stretched over a wire frame and stuffed. They might equally as well ...