 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1874 - 522 pages
...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 - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...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 - Pennsylvania - 1875 - 260 pages
...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 - Science - 1875 - 486 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Statesmen - 1876 - 394 pages
...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 - Bible and spiritualism - 1876 - 508 pages
...(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 - Education - 1877 - 982 pages
...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 - English literature - 1878 - 310 pages
...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 pages
...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... 
