Our present race of ephemerae will in a course 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 Day - Page 3311832Full view - About this book
| 1792 - 822 pages
...been engaged in, for the good of my compatriot inhabitants of this bum, or my philcfophical ftudies for the benefit of our race in general ! for in politics (what csn laws do without morah '.) our prefent race of Ephemera will, in a courfe of minutes, become corrupt,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 324 pages
...engaged in, for the good oimy '* compatriot inhabitants of this bufh, or my phi" lofophical ftudies, for the benefit of our race *' in general ! for in...politics (what can laws do " without morals ?) our prcfent race of ephemeras " will in a courfe of minutes become corrupt, '* like thofe of other and... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...leaf, which I cannot live to enjoy? What the political struggles I have been engaged in, for the good of my com-patriot inhabitants of this bush, or my...(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 consequently... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...live to enjoy ! What the political struggles I have been engaged in, for the good of my corn-patriot inhabitants of this bush, or my philosophical studies,...(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 consequently... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...live to enjoy ! What the political struggles I have been engaged in, for the good of my corn-patriot inhabitants of this bush, or my philosophical studies,...! for in politics (what can laws do without morals r) our present raeĢ cases, prudently choose a partial death. A mangled painful limb, which cannot... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 324 pages
...which I cannot live to enjoy! What the political " struggles I have been engaged in, for the good " of my compatriot inhabitants of this bush, or " my...our •" race in general ! For in politics (what can huvs " do without morals?) our present race of ephe" meraj will in the course of a few minutes be"... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...leaf, which I cannot live to enjoy ! What the political struggles I have been engaged in, for the good of my compatriot inhabitants of this- bush, or my...philosophical studies for the benefit of our race in- general 1 for in pohtics (what can laws do without morals ?) our pre-- sent race of ephemera will in a course... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...live to enjoy ! What tv.e political struggles I have been engaged in, for the good of my com patriot inhabitants of this bush, or my philosophical studies,...general ! for in politics (what can laws do without moral < ?) our present race of Ephemeras will in a course of minutes become corrupt, like those of... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...live to enjoy ! What the political struggles I have been engaged in, for the good of my com. patriot inhabitants of this bush, or my philosophical studies,...of our race in general ! for in politics (what can Jaws do without morals ?) our present race of Ephemeras will in a course of minutes become corrupt,... | |
| Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...leaf, which I cannot live to enjoy ! What the political struggles I have been engaged in for the good of my compatriot inhabitants of this bush, or my philosophical...without morals ?), our present race of Ephemera will, in a course of minutes, become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and consequently as wretched;... | |
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