 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 612 страници
...excuse for those who spend whole hours in teaching their parrots to speak ; and, indeed, the bird, on those occasions, seems the wisest animal of the...difficulty at once, by assuring me, that the French women scarce did any thing else the whole day than sit and instruct their feathered pupils ; and that the... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 страници
...French, when I could not understand our own, though they spoke my native language. I at first ascribed it to the different qualities of the two languages,...difficulty at once, by assuring me that the French women scarce did any titing else the whole day than sit and instruct their feathered pupils ; and that the... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 страници
...French, when I could not understand our own, though they spoke my native language. I at first ascribed it to the different qualities of the two languages,...difficulty at once, by assuring me that the French women scarce did any thing else the whole day than sit and instruct their feathered pupils ; and that the... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 606 страници
...French, when I could not understand our own, though they spoke my native language. I at first ascribed it to the different qualities of the two languages,...difficulty at once, by assuring me that the French women scarce did any thing else the whole day than sit and instruct their feathered pupils ; and that the... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 страници
...French, when I could not understand our own, though they spoke my native language. I at first ascribed it to the different qualities of the two languages,...friend that was with me solved the difficulty at once, bv assuring me that the French women scarce did any thing else the whole day than •it and instruct... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 страници
...French, when I could not understand our own, though they spoke my native language. I at first ascribed it to the different qualities of the two languages,...was for entering into an elaborate discussion on the Towels and consonants: but a friend that was with me solved the difficulty at once, by assuring me... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 страници
...French, when I could not understand our own, though they spoke my native language. I at first ascribed it to the different qualities of the two languages,...difficulty at once, by assuring me that the French women scarce did any thing else the whole day than sit and instruct their feathered pupils ; and that the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 страници
...French, when I could not understand our own, though they spoke my native language. I at first ascribed it to the different qualities of the two languages,...difficulty at once, by assuring me that the French women scarce did any thing else the whole day than sit and instruct their feathered pupils ; and that the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 страници
...greater facility. The bird generally learns most in those families where the master or mistress have least to do ; and becomes more expert, in proportion...by assuring me that the French women scarcely did anything else the whole day than sit and instruct their feathered pupils ; and that the birds were... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 страници
...French, when I could not understand our own, though they spoke my native language. I at first ascribed it to the different qualities of the two languages,...difficulty at once, by assuring me that the French women scarce did anything else the whole day than sit and instruct their feathered pupils ; and that the... | |
| |
In going through the towns of France some time since, I could not help observing how much plainer their parrots spoke than ours, and how very distinctly I understood their parrots speak French, when I could not understand our own, though they spoke my... 
