| Walter Isaacson - 2004 - 628 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 leaf, which I cannot live to enjoy! . . . My Friends would comfort me with the idea of a name they say I shall leave behind me; and they... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 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... | |
| Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 514 σελίδες
...health, I cannot expect to live above 7 or 8 minutes longer. 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 compatriots, inhabitants of this bush; or my philosophical studies for... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 512 σελίδες
...health, I cannot expect to live above 7 or 8 minutes longer. 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 compatriots, inhabitants of this bush; or my philosophical studies for... | |
| Joyce Chaplin - 2007 - 432 σελίδες
...demanded one fly, who was 420 minutes old, so quite "greyheaded." "What the political Struggles ... or my philosophical Studies for the Benefit of our Race in general!" 46 Thus, Franklin hinted to the Physiocrats, who published Ephemerides, that their theories were even... | |
| Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1875 - 542 σελίδες
...though still in health, I cannot expect to live above seven or eight minutes longer. What now avail 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,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 189? - 332 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 1 have been engaged in for the good of my compatriot inhabitants of this bush, or my philosophical... | |
| 112 σελίδες
..."to enjoy ! What the political Struggles I have "been engag'd in for the Good of my Compatri"otes, Inhabitants of this Bush, or my philo"sophical Studies for the Benefit of our Race in "general ! For in Politics what can Laws do "without [Morale] Morals.* our present Race "of Ephemeres will in a Course... | |
| 1873 - 342 σελίδες
...still in health, I can not expect to live above seven or eight minutes longer. 7. " What now avails all my toil and labor in amassing honey-dew on this leaf, which I can not live to enjoy ? What the political struggles I have been engaged in for the good of my compatriot... | |
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