 | Ron Wendel - 2009
...God. Several years before his death, he wrote his own epitaph. This is how he wanted to be remembered: The body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, Like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here food for worms; Yet the... | |
 | Alf J. Mapp - 2005 - 183 σελίδες
...himself, Franklin expressed both faith in a benevolent God and belief in the immortality of the soul: The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the cover of an old book; its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here, food for worms; but the... | |
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THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in... 
