[Student essay on life's uncertainty] (fragment), undated


Autoria(s): Harvard University Archives
Resumo

Folio-sized leaf containing a handwritten essay on life's uncertainty with an epitaph from English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon (1561-1626): "He that to vain mortality does trust, / But limns the water, or but writes in dust." The remaining pages of the essay are missing.

Identificador

HUM 79 Box 1, Folder 15

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/47007753?width=150&height=150&usethumb=y

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:11180501

http://colonialnorthamerican.library.harvard.edu/prod/cna/hua14011c00015

Publicador

Harvard University Archives

Relação

Harvard University Archives: Papers of Eliphalet Pearson, 1768-1819-->I. Student work, 1768-1773-->C. English exercises, 1770-1773, undated

Direitos

The Papers of Eliphalet Pearson are open for research.