Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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Identifikator:: 1761921606

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-140735

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Author:: Drahn, Ernst http://d-nb.info/gnd/116194588

Title:: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹič Ulʹjanov

Edition:: 2., verb. und verm. Aufl

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Prager

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: 80 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Lenin-Bibliographie

Collection:: Economics Books

1784] Essays ) But the absurdity of descending honors is not a mere matter of philosophical opinion; it is capable of mathematical demonstration. A man’s son, for instance, is but half of his family, the other half be- longing to the family of his wife. His son, too, marrying into another family, his share in the grand- son is but a fourth; in the great-grandson, by the same process, it is but an eighth; in the next genera- tion a sixteenth; the next a thirty-second ; the next a sixty-fourth; the next an hundred and twenty- eighth; the next a two hundred and fifty-sixth; and the next a five hundred and twelfth. Thus in nine generations, which will not require more than three hundred years (no very great antiquity for a fam- ily), our present Chevalier of the Order of Cincinna- tus’ share in the then existing knight will be but a five hundred and twelfth part, which, allowing the present certain fidelity of American wives to be in- sured down through all those nine generations, is so small a consideration that methinks no reasonable man would hazard for the sake of it the disagreeable consequences of the jealousy, envy, and ill-will of his countrymen. Let us go back with our calculation from this young noble, the five hundred and twelfth part of the present knight, through his nine generations, till we return to the year of the institution. He must have had a father and a mother, they are two; each of them had a father and a mother, they are four. Those of the next preceding generation will be eight, the next sixteen, the next thirty-two, the 23C

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