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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... wings, the third joint of which ended in threefingered claws much longer than the feet, the feathers clearly ... wing tip. Every ancient writer who touched upon natural history proved that he knew of the existence of these toothed and ...
... wings not feathered, but like those of bats." Every geological formation which is investigated helps to prove these statements concerning the beginning of serpent, bird, beast, and vegetable life. They combine with other facts of nature ...
... wings shall tell the matter." Jeremiah complained, "Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds around about are against her." Jesus, in illustration of His devotion to His ministry, was thinking of the birds when He said ...
... wing." The star that he saw in his hope was the same that led the children of Israel, and the wing he heard was the shelter under which they took refuge. CHAPTER II – THE PLACE WHEN so sane a historian.
... wings," we feel that the birds must have been as numerous as any one other form of creation worth considering. This statement is confirmed by Pliny, who several centuries later wrote that birds flew into Italy in clouds from across the ...