| Show perseverance E edward livingston after a labor of two years had prepared for the legislature of louisiana a complete I 1 e te code of criminal laws in both the english 11 lish and french languages one night he retired after sitting up late lato to give the last touch to his work ai an alarm of fire awoke him and he rushed in his study to find his hii work reduced to ashes he was wad sixty years y of age bilt but the next morning bothin nothing daunted daunted ho lie sat down to begin again U in two years more the reproduction was completo complete a phoenix nix of what had been destroyed |