 At table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmole, wherein he did assure me that frogs and many insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed.  The Observatory - Page 731909Full view - About this book
 | J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 422 pages
...year) to my Lord Mayor's by coach, with a great deal of honourable company, and great entertainment. At table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmole,...insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed. Dr. Bates's singularity in not rising up nor drinking the king's nor other healths at the table was... | |
 | 1825 - 830 pages
...of honourable company, and great entertainment. At table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmolc, wherein he did assure me that frogs and many insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed. Dr. Bates's singularity in not rising up nor drinking the King's nor other healths at the table, was... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1848 - 472 pages
...year) to my Lord Mayor's by coach, with a great deal of honourable company, and great entertainment. At table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmole,...insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed. Dr. Bates's3 singularity in not rising up nor drinking the King's nor other healths at the table was... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 496 pages
...year, to my Lord Mayor's by coach, with a great deal of honourable company, and great entertainment. At table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmole,...insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed. Dr. Bates's3 singularity in not rising up nor drinking the King's nor other healths at the table was... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 484 pages
...year, to my Lord Mayor's by coach, with a great deal of honourable company, and great entertainment. At table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmole,...insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed. Dr. Bates's2 singularity in not rising up nor drinking the King's nor other healths at the table was... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1875 - 650 pages
...and so to my Lord Mayor's by coach, with a great deal of honourable company, and great entertainment. At table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmole,...insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed. Dr. Bates's singularity in not rising up nor drinking the King's nor other healths at the table was... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1875 - 552 pages
...and so to my Lord Mayor's by coach, with a great deal of honourable company, and great entertainment. At table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmole,...insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed. Dr. Bates's singularity in not rising up nor drinking the King's nor other healths at the table was... | |
 | 1878 - 542 pages
...Prevention of Cruelly to Animals would have had something to say to Dr. Williams. On May 23rd, 1661: — "At table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmole,...insects do often fall from the sky ready formed." — Vol. i., p. 202. It is difficult to say whose credulity is here most to be admired, that of Samuel... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1880 - 706 pages
...from a learned man, the founder of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford : 'At table I had very good discoui-se with Mr. Ashmole, wherein he did assure me that frogs and many insests do often fall from the sky, ready formed.' This was a commonly received opinion in olden times,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1884 - 380 pages
...and so to my Lord Mayor's by coach, with a great deal of honourable company, and great entertainment. At table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmole,...insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed. Dr. Bates's 3 singularity in not rising up nor 1 In Crooked Lane: but see August 9, 1660, ante. 2 Jonas... | |
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