 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 768 pages
...to the discourse of these little creatures; but as they, in their natural vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation....disputing warmly on the merit of two foreign musicians, one a cousin, the other a moscheto ; in which dispute they spent their time, seemingly as regardless... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 562 pages
...to the discourse of these little creatures; but as they, in their natural vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation....disputing warmly on the merit of two foreign musicians, one a cousin, the other a moscheto ; in which dispute they spent their time, seemingly as regardless... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...to the discourse of these little creatures ; but as they, in their natural vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation....disputing warmly on the merit of two foreign musicians, one a piping gnat, the other a mosquito, in which dispute3 they spent their time, seemingly as regardless... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...their natural vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation. 1 found, however, by some broken expressions that I...disputing warmly on the merit of two foreign musicians, one a piping gnat, the other a mosquito, in which dispute3 they spent their time, seemingly as regardless... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...to the discourse of these little creatures; but as they, in their national vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation....disputing warmly on the merit of two foreign musicians, one a cousin, the other a moscheto; in which dispute they spent their time, seemingly as regardless... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 462 pages
...curiosity to the discourse of these little creatures; but as they in their natural vivacity spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation....disputing warmly on the merit of two foreign musicians, one a cousin, the other a moscheto; in which dispute they spent their time, seemingly as regardless... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - Statesmen - 1898 - 440 pages
...to the discourse of these little creatures ; but as they, in their natural vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation....disputing warmly on the merit of two foreign musicians, one a cousin, the other a moscheto ; in which dispute they spent their time, seemingly as regardless... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 464 pages
...to the discourse of these little creatures; but as they, in their national vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation....two foreign musicians, the one a cousin, the other a moscheto; in which dispute they spent their time, seemingly as regardless of the shortness of life... | |
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I listened through curiosity to the discourse of these little creatures ; but as they, in their national vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation. I found, however, by some broken expressions that I heard now... 
