 | Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 524 pàgines
...year's silence .between friends must needs give uneasiness. ., ; v .1. -r ] tS t *« I \*, /fjfiOur new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance...continues much as it has been for some time except that 1 grow thinner and weaker, so that I cannot expect to hold out much longer. i: <•. .it. My respects... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 542 pàgines
...The voice of jthilosqpliy I apprehend,, can hardly .' A member of the French Academy of Sewncesi ' be heard among those tumults. If any thing material...permanency: but in this world nothing can be said to.be certain, except death and taxes! My health continues much as it has been for some time, except... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1912 - 702 pàgines
...Philadelphia. " Writing from Philadelphia, November 13, 1789, to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, Franklin says : " Our new Constitution is now established, and has an...can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." PROC. AMER. PHIL. SOC., LI. 2O^ L, PRINTED JAN. 2O, 1913. plan is not working so smoothly now as in... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1912 - 682 pàgines
...Philadelphia. 2« Writing from Philadelphia, November 13, 1789, to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, Franklin says : " Our new Constitution is now established, and has an...can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." PROC. AMER. PHIL. SOC., LI. 2O7 L, PRINTED JAN. 2O, 1913. plan is not working so smoothly now as in... | |
 | Russell L. Caplan - 1988 - 265 pàgines
...ratification after a prior rejection, 60 although this conclusion is not uncontroversial. 61 Timeliness promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," In theory an application could remain effective, that is, could be aggregated toward a convention call,... | |
 | Claude-Anne Lopez - 1990 - 436 pàgines
...apprehend can hardly be heard among those tumults. Finally, in an outburst of national pride, he quipped: "Our new Constitution is now established, and has...nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!"10 To be sure, few people, even among the French, had the vaguest inkling of the violence of... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pàgines
...Court. "The Supreme Court.' Quoted in: Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 3. no. 1 (London; winter 1949). 5 N; Lii DECOP6 , BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), US slalesman, wriler. Letler, 13 Nov. 1789 (published in Complete Works,... | |
 | Mary W. Cornog - 1998 - 580 pàgines
...to seem true to life. verity Yver-a-te\ A true fact or statement. • Ben Franklin's statement that "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" is held as a verity by many. The phrase "eternal verity" is often used to mean an enduring truth or... | |
 | Hervé A. Bourlard, Nelson Morgan - 1994 - 358 pàgines
...statistical pattern recognition.7 7 But time will tell. Chapter 2 STATISTICAL PATTERN CLASSIFICATION In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin 2.1 Introduction No new engineering or scientific technique, however novel, evolves... | |
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Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.* Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov. 
