| George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 σελίδες
...though still in health, I cannot expect to live above seven or eight minutes longer. What now avails all my toil and labor, in amassing honey-dew on this...studies for the benefit of our race in general! for, in politics, what can laws do without morals? Our present race of ephemera: will in a course of minutes... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 σελίδες
...though still in health, I cannot expect to live above seven or eight minutes longer. What now avails all my toil and labor, in amassing honey-dew on this...studies for the benefit of our race in general! for, in politics, what can laws do without morals? Our present race of ephemerae will in a course of minutes... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards - 1920 - 424 σελίδες
...though still in health, I cannot expect to live above seven or eight minutes longer. What now avails all my toil and labor, in amassing honey-dew on this...studies for the benefit of our race in general ! for, in politics, what can laws do without morals? Our present race of ephemerae will in a course of minutes... | |
| Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1921 - 720 σελίδες
...though still in health, I cannot expect to live above seven or eight minutes longer. What now avails all my toil and labor in amassing honey-dew on this...studies for the benefit of our race in general ! for, in politics, what can laws do without morals? Our present race of ephemerae will in a course of minutes... | |
| Claude-Anne Lopez - 1990 - 436 σελίδες
...cannot l1ve to enjoy! What the political Struggles I have been engag'dinfor the Good of my Compatriots, Inhabitants of this Bush, or my philosophical studies for the Benefit of our Race in general! . . . My Friends would comfort me with the Idea of a Name they Say I shall leave behind me; and they... | |
| Kerry S. Walters - 1999 - 236 σελίδες
...day, Franklin recounts the insect's melancholy ruminations: "What now avails all my Toil and Labour in amassing Honey-Dew on this Leaf, which I cannot...to enjoy! What the political Struggles I have been engag'd in for the Good of my Compatriotes ...; or my philosophical Studies for the Benef1t of our... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, University Press of the Pacific - 2001 - 190 σελίδες
...though still in health, I cannot expect to live above seven or eight minutes longer. What now avails all my toil and labor in amassing honey-dew on this...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... | |
| Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 σελίδες
...nature, though still in health, I cannot expect to live above 7 or 8 minutes longer. What now avails all my toil and labor in amassing honey-dew on this...struggles I have been engaged in for the good of my compatriots, inhabitants of this bush; or my philosophical studies for the benefit of our race in general!... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 σελίδες
...live to enjoy! What the political struggles I have been engaged in for the good of my compatriots, inhabitants of this bush; or my philosophical studies for the benefit of our race in general! For in politics, what can laws do without morals! Our present race of ephemeres will in a course of minutes,... | |
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