 | 1793 - 648 σελίδες
...txpeft to live above feven or eight minutes longer. What now avails all my toil and labour in amaiTing honey-dew on this leaf, which I cannot live to enjoy ? what the political liruggles I havu been engaged in, for the good of my compatriot inhabitants of the bum, or my philofophical... | |
 | 1873 - 350 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Howard - 1834 - 206 σελίδες
...cannot expect to live above seven at eight minutes longer. What now avails all my toil and labour, in amassing honey-dew on this leaf, which I cannot live to enjoy ! MTiat the political struggles I have been engaged in, for the good of my compatriot inhabitants of... | |
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My present friends are the children and grandchildren of the friends of my youth, who are now, alas, no more ! And I must soon follow them; for by the course of nature, though still in health, I cannot expect to live above seven or eight minutes longer.... 
