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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... to suppose that our ancestors knew of toothed birds just as we do, by finding petrified skeletons. The fact remains that the ancients knew, for they introduced these species into tradition and mythology, and even incorporated.
Gene Stratton-Porter. introduced these species into tradition and mythology, and even incorporated them in straight attempts at the natural history of their own day. Pliny described an eagle, of which he wrote: "Lady Phaemonae, who was ...
... species when he asked: Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?" King David, who said of himself, "My tongue is the pen of a ready writer," unhesitatingly declared: I know all the ...
... species, rebellious in confinement, and quarreling over perchingplaces or food. The Bible makes it quite evident that even in those early days people so loved the graceful motion and cheery songs of the birds that they constructed rude ...
... species were marvelous, but all that he said of bird life was extremely interesting. He had a very correct idea of the circulation of the blood of man, and his physiology. He sustained his points by extracts from Synnesis, a physician ...