 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 320 Seiten
...friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave brhind me ; and they tell me N I have lived long enough to nature and to glory. But what will fame be to an ephemerae who no longer exists ? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1842 - 180 Seiten
...life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory. But what will fame be to an ephemsra who no longer exists ? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the... | |
 | Poul P. M. Pedersen - 1844 - 580 Seiten
...life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature...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 world itself, even the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 304 Seiten
...short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave hehind me ; an 1 they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory. But what will fame he to an ephemera who no longer exists? and what will hecome of all history in the eighteenth hour,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 224 Seiten
...life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave hehind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to elory. But what will fame he to an ephemera who no longer exists ? and what will hecome of all history... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1848 - 288 Seiten
...short! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me; an 1 they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and...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 world itself, even the... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 162 Seiten
...and life is short! My Mends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind 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 exists ? and what will become of all history in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 488 Seiten
...life is short! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature...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 world itself, even the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 375 Seiten
...life ia short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature...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 world itself, even the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855
...life is short! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature...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 world itself, even the... | |
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... of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and consequently as wretched : and in philosophy how small our progress ! Alas ! art is long, and life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall... 
