 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1921 - 718 Seiten
...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 - 1921 - 280 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1926 - 446 Seiten
...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, University Press of the Pacific - 2001 - 190 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Matthew Boyden, Nick Kimberley - 2002 - 756 Seiten
...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...leaf, who appeared to be engaged in conversation... they were disputing warmly on the merit of two foreign musicians... in which dispute they spent their... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 Seiten
...of a kind of little fly, called an ephemere, all 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 - 2005 - 320 Seiten
...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 - 189? - 332 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
