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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... thee; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee; Or, speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And ...
... thee, O inhabitant of the earth!" David promised, "He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler." Solomon, writing of the lure of the Strange Woman, recorded that a man went to her, " As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth ...
... thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate." These and other trees grew in Bible lands, over mountains, through valleys, on plains, in cultivated estate, and absolute wildness, so that travelers were sure of food almost ...
... thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olives, and honey; a land wherein ...
... thee." Again, he spoke before a great assembly of the people of Israel the words of a song in which he described the inheritance of Jacob: He made him to ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; He ...