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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... heaven and the earth." In these days every one concedes that creation required more time than Moses thought necessary to try to explain to the Children of Israel. Science has many theories concerning creation. Once it was believed that ...
... heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming." It must have been the remembrance of myriads of birds, massed in migration, which was in the mind of Isaiah when he ...
... heaven." In illustration of the loss of courage of the people, Isaiah said to them: "Thy sons have fainted, They He at the top of all the streets, As an antelope in a net." Most of the methods for taking birds and animals at that time ...
... heaven have their habitation, They sing among the branches." There were cold mountain rivulets, dashing through rocky gorges; peaceful rivers crossing the plains and valleys; the great salt sea lying in the interior, the Mediterranean ...
... heaven made their nests in his boughs." Solomon said, "The beams of our house are of cedar, and our rafters are of fir." The firs were "choice," because they were used in making harps and musical instruments, for rafters, ceilings ...