...year's silence .between friends must needs give uneasiness. ., ; v .1. -r ] tS t *« I \*, /fjfiOur new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance...continues much as it has been for some time except that 1 grow thinner and weaker, so that I cannot expect to hold out much longer. i: <•. .it. My respects...

...Philadelphia. " Writing from Philadelphia, November 13, 1789, to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, Franklin says : " Our new Constitution is now established, and has an...can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." PROC. AMER. PHIL. SOC., LI. 2O^ L, PRINTED JAN. 2O, 1913. plan is not working so smoothly now as in...

...Philadelphia. 2« Writing from Philadelphia, November 13, 1789, to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, Franklin says : " Our new Constitution is now established, and has an...can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." PROC. AMER. PHIL. SOC., LI. 2O7 L, PRINTED JAN. 2O, 1913. plan is not working so smoothly now as in...

...ratification after a prior rejection, 60 although this conclusion is not uncontroversial. 61 Timeliness promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," In theory an application could remain effective, that is, could be aggregated toward a convention call,...

...apprehend can hardly be heard among those tumults. Finally, in an outburst of national pride, he quipped: "Our new Constitution is now established, and has...nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!"10 To be sure, few people, even among the French, had the vaguest inkling of the violence of...

...man cometh. As Mr. Franklin wrote over 200 years ago to his friend Jean-Baptiste lx.-roy of France: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Mr. Chairman, that our Nation must levy and collect taxes for the public good is indeed inevitable....

...Court. "The Supreme Court.' Quoted in: Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 3. no. 1 (London; winter 1949). 5 N; Lii DECOP6 , BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), US slalesman, wriler. Letler, 13 Nov. 1789 (published in Complete Works,...

...statistical pattern recognition.7 7 But time will tell. Chapter 2 STATISTICAL PATTERN CLASSIFICATION In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin 2.1 Introduction No new engineering or scientific technique, however novel, evolves...

...to seem true to life. verity Yver-a-te\ A true fact or statement. • Ben Franklin's statement that "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" is held as a verity by many. The phrase "eternal verity" is often used to mean an enduring truth or...

...fades into the invisible background. If only death and taxes were inevitable in Ben Franklin's day — "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" — then modern day Americans may add the continual introduction of new devices for processing information...