| Benjamin Franklin - 189? - 332 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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Howard - 1834 - 206 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, seeming as regardless... | |
| Readers - 1873 - 350 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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