 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 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 Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - Children - 1921 - 718 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 Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - History - 1926 - 716 pages
...national vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation. I foufld, however, by some broken expressions that I heard now...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 - 1926 - 446 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....then, they were disputing warmly on the merit of two 3*5 widow of a literary man of some celebrity, and she and Franklin were always carrying on an absurd... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1923 - 648 pages
...ephemerae he says: "I listened through curiosity to the discourse of these little creatures; but ... I could make but little of their conversation. I found...disputing warmly on the merit of two foreign musicians, one a cousin, the other a moscheto." A little further on he tells of another ephemera whose soliloquy... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, University Press of the Pacific - American essays - 2001 - 190 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 63 their time, seemingly as regardless... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 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, seem279 ingly as regardless... | |
 | Readers - 1873 - 342 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 gnat, the other a mosquito ; in which dispute they spent their time, as regardless of the... | |
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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... 
