"Burroughs" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to charges preferred by Dr. John Baldwin, of Louisiana, against Marmaduke Burroughs, ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 3: Martin Van Buren • James D. Richardson
... We quote Miss Burroughs: "I don't think B. L. T. is so good any more—it takes an intelligent person to comprehend ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... made glad by finding that John Burroughs, Poet and Prophet, says that the male thrush sings to please himself, out of pure delight; and pleasing himself, he pleases his mate. "The female," says Burroughs, "is always pleased with a male that is ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... courage and bravery of John Smith, the whole would have met a sad fate. The first European woman seen on the banks of the James was the wife of one of the seventy Virginia colonists who came later, and her maid, Anne Burroughs, who helped to give permanency and character to a fugitive settlement in a colony, which waited two hundred and fifty years to learn the value of a New-England home, and to appreciate the civilization which ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Vol. 1, Issue 1. - A Massachusetts Magazine of Literature, History, - Biography, And State Progress • Various
... New England. Sunday Laws. Public Worship. First Case of Sorcery. The Witch Executed. Cotton Mather. His Experiments. His Book. The Parris Children Bewitched. The Manifestations. The Trial. Executions. George Burroughs. Rebecca Nurse. Reaction. Forwardness of ...
— History of the United States, Vol. I (of VI) • E. Benjamin Andrews
... Mr. Burroughs, as a careful observer of nature, and one of the most fascinating descriptive writers, is an author whose reputation will constantly increase; for what he does in not only an addition to our information, but to the good ...
— Birds in the Bush • Bradford Torrey
... Pleasant weather Meet Indian volunteers Tule boats Engagement between a party of Americans and Californians Death of Capt. Burroughs and Capt. Foster Capture of Thomas O. Larkin Reconnaissance San Juan Bautista Neglect of the dead Large herds of Cattle ...
— What I Saw in California • Edwin Bryant
... eyes, I'm filled with surprise Taxidermists should pass Off on you such poor glass; So unnatural they seem They'd, make Audubon scream, And John Burroughs laugh To encounter such chaff. Do take that bird down: Have him stuffed again, Brown!" And ...
— Successful Recitations • Various
... Burroughs' "Birds and Poets" this master singer is described as the most melodious of our songsters, with the exception of the Wood Thrush, a bird whose strains, more than any other's, express harmony and serenity, and he complains that no merited poetic monument has ...
— Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. II, No 3, September 1897 • Various |
