 | 1792 - 822 pages
...xvhofe fucceffive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the d.iy. I happened to fee a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in converfation. You know I undcrftand all the inferior animal tongues : rr.y too great application to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 282 pages
...whofe fucceffive generations, we were told, were bred and and expired within the day. I happened to fee a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in converfation. You know I underftand all the inferior animal tongues : my too great application to the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Essays - 1794 - 348 pages
...whofe fueceffive generation?, we were told, were bred and expired' within the day. I happened to fee a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engag ed in converfation^ You know I ur.derfland al the inferior auimal tongues : my too great appli'... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day. I happened to see a living...know I understand all the inferior animal tongues: my too great application to the study of them is the best excuse I can give for the little progress... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day. I happened to see a living...know I understand all the inferior animal tongues: my too great application to the study of them is the best excuse I can give for the little progress... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...of a kind of little fly, called an Ephemera;, whose successive generations, we are told, were bred and expired within the day, I happened to see a living company of them OR a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in. conversation. You know I understand all the inferior animal... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 324 pages
...skeletons of a kind of little fly called an ephemera, whose successive generations we were told were bred and expired within the day. I happened to see a living company of them on a leaf; who appeared to he engaged in conversation. You know I understand the language of inferior animals ; my too great application... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...little fly, called an Ephemera;, whose successive guierations, we were told, were bred and expirtd within the day. I happened to see a living company...engaged in conversation. You know I understand all the infe- ior animal tongues : my too great application to the study of them, is the best excuse I can... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...of a kind of little fly, called an Ephemerae, whose successive generations, we are told, were bred and expired •within the day, I happened to see a...engaged in conversation. You know I understand all rhe inferior animal tongues: my too great application to the study of them, is the best excu;r^ I can... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...of a kind of little fly, called an Ephemeras, whose successive generations, we are told, were bred and expired within the day, I happened to see a living...company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged ii) conversation. You know I understand all the inferior animal tongues : my too great application... | |
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We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day. I happened to see a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in conversation. 
