 | American Antiquarian Society - 1874 - 522 σελίδες
...have produced little or nothing. Long before his death, he wrote the following epitaph upon himself: The Body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old Book, Its contents worn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms ! • Yet... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 σελίδες
...a foot above the ground. It bears the following : — BENJAMIN"] ' AND [-/FRANKLIN. DEBORAH J 1790. 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 food for worms : Yet the work... | |
 | David Robert Bruce Nevin - 1875 - 260 σελίδες
...destiny." In this connection we insert the quaint epitaph written by himself long before his death : — 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 book... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1875 - 486 σελίδες
...choicest of our philosophers have held by it to their final sleep, and have written of it themselves. " 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 556 σελίδες
...testament, in the presence of us. FRANCIS BAILEY, THOMAS LANG, ABRAHAM SHOEMAKER. EPITAPH WRITTEN IN 1728. 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. But the work... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1876 - 394 σελίδες
...been admired ; but some of more sensitive minds perceive in it a tone which is somewhat repulsive. " 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... | |
 | Marie Sinclair Countess of Caithness - 1876 - 508 σελίδες
...(with various corrections I found among his papers, and from which this is a faithful copy " : — 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 σελίδες
...of his last Will, in Christ Church burying ground on the north aide of Arch Street, corner of Sixth. The Body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Ita contents torn out. And Btript of Its lettering and gliding,) Lies here, food for worms. Bat the... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1878 - 310 σελίδες
...himself may serve as an illustration of the occasional combination of the literary and the grotesque: — 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... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 σελίδες
...been admired ; but some of more sensitive minds perceive in it a tone which is somewhat repulsive. " 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... | |
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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... 
