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" ... change of seasons; as, in a few minutes, he can pass from summer to winter, from the lower to the higher regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal cold; and from thence descend, at will, to the torrid or the arctic regions of the earth. "
Peter Parley's Book of Curiosities: Natural and Artificial : Illustrated ... - Page 68
by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 224 pages
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

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...
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The North American Review, Volume 24

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...
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The North American Review, Volume 24

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...
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A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes ..., Volume 3

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...
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A System of Universal Geography, Popular and Scientific: Comprising a ...

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...
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The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 4

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...
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An Abridgement of Universal Geography, Modern and Ancient

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...
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The Faculties of Birds

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...
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Tales of Animals: Comprising Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects

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...
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The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ...

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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