 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...vor seinem Tode für sich verfasst hatte, lautet folgendermassen: The Body of BENJAMIN FRANK L IN,, 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,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...composition on the slab that covers his grave. How ridiculous it would look! "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. Bnt the work shall not be lost ; For... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...which he wrote for himself, before he was twenty-one years old. It is as follows: "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 shall not be lost, For... | |
 | 1855 - 512 pages
...himself was written by Doctor Franklin many years previously to 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 g.lding, lies here, food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be lost... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 294 pages
...youth, at the age of twenty-three, was not placed over his grave in Philadelphia. The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And atript of its lettering and gilding,) Lie* here, food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be loot.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...slab that covers his grave. How ridiculous it would look ! "The body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PKINTEK, 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 work shall not be lost ; For... | |
 | William Ross Wallace - 1856 - 192 pages
...above and the following (written subsequently) which has been so justly admired. " 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... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856 - 386 pages
...same true and wise spirit as the letter I have just read you:" 'The Body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PBINTEU (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 itself shall not be lost,... | |
 | William Allen - 1857 - 926 pages
...previously to his death ; probably suggested by Woodbridge's lines on John Cotton : " The body of Bcnjamiu Franklin, printer, Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out. And Btript of its lettering and gilding, Lie* here, food for worms ; Yet the work Itself shaJl not be lout,... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 pages
...years before his death, which took place April 17th, 1790, aged 84 years: — " 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,... | |
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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... 
