 | 1792 - 822 pages
...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 - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...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 - 1806 - 586 pages
...friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, 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 exists ? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour, when the world itself, even the... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 324 pages
...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 ephe" mera who no longer exists ? and what will be" come of all history in the eighteenth hour, " when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...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 - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...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 Ephemeras who no longer exists ? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hoar, when the... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...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... | |
 | Hwiding - 1817 - 412 pages
...,,short ! My friends would comfort me ,;wilh the idea of a name, they say, I* ., shall leave behind me ; and they tell " ,,me I have lived long enough to nature s. ..1,;! to glory, • But what will fame be ' ,,to an ephemera who no longer exists? ,,and what will... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
