 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 440 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...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... | |
 | Joel Chandler Harris - 1907
...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 - 1909 - 249 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 1 And what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the world itself, even the... | |
 | Adaline May Conway - 1914 - 127 Seiten
...and 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... | |
 | 1914 - 508 Seiten
...and 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...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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 737 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....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, Jonathan Edwards - 1920 - 368 Seiten
...comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived j 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 the eighteenth hour, when the world itself, even the... | |
 | Claude-Anne Lopez - 1990 - 404 Seiten
...in general! . . . 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 Ephemere who no longer exists? After this unusual display of despondency, Franklin-theEphemere pulls... | |
 | University Press of the Pacific - 2001 - 188 Seiten
...and 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... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 Seiten
...long, and life 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 ephemere who no longer exists? And what will become of all history, in the 18th hour, when the world... | |
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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... 
