| 1792 - 822 pągines
...life is fhort. My friends would comfort me with the ide.i of a name, they fay I mall leave behind me j and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory. But what will fame be toan Ephemera who no longer exilU .' and what will become of all hiitory in the eighteenth hour, when... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1793 - 324 pągines
...is fhort ! My friend would comfort me with *' the idea of a name, they fay, I fhall leave be" hind me ; and they tell me I have lived long " enough to...nature and to glory. But what *' will fame be to an ephemera who no longer " exifts ? and what will become of all hiftory in " the eighteenth hour, when... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1793 - 282 pągines
...wretched : And 11 in philofophy how fmall our progrefs ! " Alas ! art is long, and life is ftiort ! " My friends would comfort me with " the idea of a name, they fay, I (halt " leave behind me ; and they tell me I " have lived long enough to nature and " to glory.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 590 pągines
...(what can laws do without morals?) our present race of ephemerae will in a course of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and...to nature and to glory. But what will fame be to an ephemera, who no longer exists ? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pągines
...(what can laws do without morals:) our present race of ephemerae will in a course of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and...they say, I shall leave behind me; and they tell me, 1 have lived long enough to nature and to glory. But what will fame be to an ephemera, who no longer... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 292 pągines
...(what can laws do without morals ?) our pre-- sent race of ephemera will in a course of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and...philosophy how small our progress ! Alas ! art is long and lift: is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 196 pągines
...(what can Jaws do without morals ?) our present race of Ephemeras will in a course of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and...to nature and to glory. But what will fame be to an Ephemeras who no longer exists ? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hoar, when the... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 190 pągines
...(what can laws do without moral < ?) our present race of Ephemeras will in a course of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and...wretched : And in philosophy how small our progress ! Ahs ! art is long and life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say,... | |
| Joseph Taylor - 1817 - 266 pągines
...(what can laws do without morals ?), our present race of Ephemera will, in a course of minutes, become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and...to nature and to glory. But what will fame be to an Ephemera who no longer exists ? And what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the... | |
| Hwiding - 1817 - 412 pągines
...laws do without ,, morals?) our present race of epherae-" ,,iH will in a tom-se of minutes become ,, corrupt, like those of other and older ,, bushes, and consequently as wretched. ,,And in philosophy liow small our pro,,gress! Alas! art is long, and life is ,,short ! My friends would comfort me ,;wilh... | |
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