 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 頁
...then should we i \ , grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their society? " We are spirits. That bodies should be lent...benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We ourselves, in some cases, prudently choose a partial death. A mangled... | |
 | 1899 - 1012 頁
...Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their society? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent...benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We ourselves, in some cases, prudently choose a partial death. A mangled... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 頁
...can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become...benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. W« ourselves, in some cases, prudently choose a partial death. A mangled,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1904 - 500 頁
...This is rather an 1 John Franklin, who died at Boston, in January, 1756, at the age of sixty-five. embryo state, a preparation for living. A man is not...benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We ourselves, in some cases, prudently choose a partial death. A mangled... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 852 頁
...your affectionate brother, B. FRANKLIN. 217. TO MISS E. HUBBARD1 Philadelphia, February 23, 1756. — I condole with you. We have lost a most dear and valuable...benevolent, that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We ourselves, in some cases, prudently choose a partial death. A mangled... | |
 | Robert Spears - 1906 - 474 頁
...they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid they become an incumbrance, and answer none of the intentions...were given ; it is equally kind and benevolent that then a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way." Franklin's letter to Whitefield,... | |
 | Robert Spears - 1906 - 452 頁
...these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid they become an inoumbrance, and answer none of the intentions for which they were given ; it is equally kind and benevolent that then a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way." Franklin's letter to Whitefield,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 頁
...can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become...benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We ourselves, in some cases, prudently choose a partial death. A mangled,... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 頁
...nature [he wrote in his fifty-first year to Elizabeth Hubbard, after the death of his brother John] that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul...benevolent, that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We ourselves, in some cases, prudently choose a partial death. A mangled... | |
 | Charles Lakeman Tweedale - 1918 - 604 頁
...of an aid become an encumbrance, and answer none of the intentions for which they were given us— it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. " Our friend and we were invited abroad on a party of pleasure, which... | |
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We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us... 
