 | Francis Fitzgerald - 1787 - 768 pages
...ftuck to the tip by a glutinous matter. The morion is quicker than the eye can follow. I cannot fay how long my father had been acquainted with the toad before I knew it ; but when I was rirft acquainted with it, lie ufed to mention it as the old toad I have known fo many... | |
 | William Smellie - 1790 - 576 pages
...by nurfes, as to defire to fee * it *.' In the fecond letter, Mr Arfcott remarks, * I cannot fay * how long my father had been acquainted with the toad before I * knew it; but, when I was firft acquainted with it, he ufed to men* tion it as the old toad I have known fo many... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1796 - 426 pages
...following are anfwers from the fame gentleman to fome queries propofed by Mr Pennant. " Fir/I, I cannot fay how long my father had been acquainted with the toad before I knew it ; but when I firft was acquainted with it, he ufed to mention it as the old toad I've known fo many... | |
 | Francis Fitzgerald - 1797 - 556 pages
...ftuck to the tip by a glutinous matter. The motion is quicker than the eye can follow. I cannot fay how long my father had been acquainted with the toad before I knew it; but when I was firft acquainted with it, he ufed to mention it as the old toad I have known for fo... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 pages
...which was stuck to the tip by a glutinous matter. The motion is quicker than the eye can follow. — I cannot say how long my father had been acquainted with the toad before I knew it; but when I was first acquainted with it, he used to mention it as the old toad I have known so many... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 526 pages
...insect, which stuck to the tip by a glutinous matter. The motion is quicker than the eye can follow. I cannot say how long my father had been acquainted with the Toad, before I knew it; but when I was first acquainted with it, he used to mention it as the old Toad I have known so many... | |
 | William Smellie - 1832 - 348 pages
...instilled into them by nurses, as to desire to see it." In the second letter, Mr. Arscott remarks, " I cannot say how long my father had been acquainted with the toad before I knew it; but when I was first acquainted with it, he used to mention it as the.old toad I have known so many... | |
 | William Smellie - 1835 - 380 pages
...instilled into them by nurses, as to desire to see it." In the second letter, Mr. Arscott remarks, " I cannot say how long my father had been acquainted with the toad before • knew it; but when I was first acquainted with it, he used to mention it as the old toad I have... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1850 - 308 pages
...insect, which stuck to the tip by a glutinous matter. The motion is quicker than the eye can follow. I cannot say how long my father had been acquainted with the Toad before I knew it ; but when I was first acquainted with it, he used to mention it as ' the old Toad 1 have known for... | |
 | William Smellie - 1851 - 376 pages
...instilled into them by nurses, as to desire to see it." In the second letter, Mr. Arscott remarks, " I cannot say how long my father had been acquainted with the toad before I knew it ; but when I was first acquainted with it, he used to mention it as the old toad I have known so many... | |
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... stuck to the tip by a glutinous matter. The motion is quicker than the eye can follow. I cannot say how long my father had been acquainted with the toad, before I knew it ; but when I was first acquainted with it, he used to mention it as the old... 