| Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1862 - 350 páginas
...willingly let die — for we seem to live in the persons of our forefathers ; and it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity, remarks the historian of the Decline and Fall of Rome. To this end he referred his pedigree to the... | |
| John Edwin Cussans - 1866 - 150 páginas
...principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 páginas
...principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal...narrow circle in which nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 páginas
...principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal...narrow circle in which nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 páginas
...principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers; it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal...beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy wiD suggest; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to... | |
| George William Logan - 1874 - 60 páginas
...minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers, — it is the labour and the reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal...active to enlarge the narrow circle in which Nature has conf1ned us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forward, beyond... | |
| 1873 - 350 páginas
...principle in the minds of men. We seemed to have lived in the persons of our forefathers. It is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 páginas
...principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal...narrow circle in which nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 páginas
...principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal...narrow circle in which nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...principle in the minds of men. We seem <o have lived in the persons of our forefathers : it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ....narrow circle in which nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forwards beyond death with such hopes... | |
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