| 1846 - 522 pages
...from the etherial heights to which it soars, looking abroad at one glance on an immeasurable extent of forests, fields, lakes, and ocean, deep below him,...minutes he can pass from summer to winter, from the higher to the lower regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal cold, and from thence descend at... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 pages
...outstripping even the tempests themselves ; unawed by anything but man ; and from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance,...pass from summer to winter, from the lower to the hisher regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal cold ; and thence descend at will to the torrid... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 pages
...outstripping even the tempests themselves ; unawed by anything but man ; and from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance,...of change of seasons ; as in a few minutes he can pads from summer to winter, from the lower to the higher regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 pages
...thing but man; and from the etherial heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance, on aa immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes and...indifferent to the little localities of change of * The young Bald Eagle resembles the Sea Eagle so closely in its plumage, that Wilson was led to the... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 1028 pages
...themsehes -, unawed by anything but man ; and from the ethereal height to which he soars, looking abtoad at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests,...and ocean, deep below him, he appears indifferent to théchange of seasons ; as in a few moments, he can pass from summer to winter, from the lower to the... | |
| 1834 - 440 pages
...outstripping even the tempests themselves; unawed by any thing but man; and from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance, on an immeasurable exCse of forests, fields, lakes, and ocean, deep below i, he appears indifferent to the little localities... | |
| Adriano Balbi - 1835 - 578 pages
...possessing powers of flight, capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves; and from the ethereal height to which he soars, looking abroad at one glance...ocean deep below him, he appears indifferent to the change of seasons, as in a few moments, he can pass from Rummer to winter, from the lower to the higher... | |
| James Rennie - 1835 - 408 pages
...the white-headed eagle (Haliaetus leucocephahu, SAVIGNY), Wilson says, " from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance,...forests, fields, lakes, and ocean, deep below him ;" and of the osprey (Pandion haliaetus, SAVIGNY) he says, " down rapid as an arrow from heaven he... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1837 - 344 pages
...outstripping even the tempests themselves; unavved by any thing but man; and from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance,...indifferent to the little localities of change of season ; as in a few minutes he can pass from summer to winter, from the lower to the higher regions... | |
| 1838 - 944 pages
...even the tempests themselves unawed by any thing but man ; and, from the etherea heights to which it soars, looking abroad at one glance on an immeasurable...and ocean, deep below him, he appears indifferent t< the little localities of change of seasons ; as in a few minutes he can pass from summer to winter,... | |
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