 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 pages
...uncertain. I therefore now form no schemes, but such as are of immediate execution, indulging myself in no future prospect except one, that of returning to...spend the evening of life with my friends and family. Mr. and Mrs. Strahan, and Mr. and Mrs. West, when I last saw them, desired to be kindly remembered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 768 pages
...26 PETER COLLINSON. [y*ET. 62. schemes, but such as are of immediate execution, indulging myself in no future prospect except one, that of returning to...spend the evening of life with my friends and family. TO Michael Understanding that an account of our dear Collinson. [Date uncer- departed friend, Mr. Peter... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 562 pages
...B 26 PETER COLLJNSON. \Kx. 62. schemes, but such as are of immediate execution, indulging myself in no future prospect except one, that of returning to...spend the evening of life with my friends and family. TO Michael Understanding that an account of our dear Collinson. [Date uncer- departed friend, Mr. Peter... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...uncertain. I therefore form no schemes, hut such aa are of immediate execution, indulging myself in no future prospect except one, that of returning to Philadelphia, there to spend tin evening of my life with my friends and family." And yet this old man of sixty-three, writing about... | |
 | Albert Tracy Huntington - Medicine - 1909 - 298 pages
...uncertain. I therefore now form no Schemes, but such as are of immediate Execution; indulging myself in no future Prospect except one, that of returning to...spend the Evening of Life with my Friends and Family." Again on June 10, 1760: "On Friday came on a Fit of the Gout, from which I had been free Five Years.... | |
 | Theodore Diller - Celebrities - 1912 - 100 pages
...uncertain. I therefore now form no Schemes, but such as are of immediate Execution; indulging myself in no future Prospect except one, that of returning to...spend the Evening of Life with my Friends and Family." Again on June 10, 1760: "On Friday came on a Fit of the Gout, from which I had been free Five Years.... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 pages
...uncertain. I therefore now form no Schemes, but such as are of immediate Execution; indulging myself in no future Prospect except one, that of returning to...spend the Evening of Life with my Friends and Family. There was a time when he loved England and would perhaps have contentedly lived and died there, if... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 607 pages
...cannot at most continue much longer." He had just turned 63. Therefore, he was "indulging myself in no future prospect except one, that of returning to Philadelphia, there to spend the evening of my life with my friends and family." Sally and her husband came back from Boston hoping to find Franklin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838 - 606 pages
...uncertain. I therefore now form no schemes, but such as are of immediate execution, indulging myself in no future prospect except one, that of returning to...spend the evening of life with my friends and family. Mr. and Mrs. Strahan, and Mr. and Mrs. West, when I last saw them, desired to be kindly remembered... | |
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Bulk often fail suddenly: I know that according to the Course of Nature I cannot at most continue much longer, and that the living even of another Day is uncertain. I therefore now form no Schemes, but such as are of immediate Execution; indulging myself... 