 | John Saunders - 1858 - 806 pages
...206.) Perhaps the neatest of tins sort of epitaph is that made by Benjamin Franklin upon himself: " The body of B. Franklin, Printer, Like the cover of an old book, Its contente torn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding, Lies hero, food for worms. But the work... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - 1858 - 606 pages
...young man of twenty-three years, he penned the following quaint epitaph : The Body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (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... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1859 - 464 pages
...is quite in the same true and wise spirit as the letter I have just read you : "'The Body 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 itself shall not be lost,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1859 - 710 pages
...then prints it in these words. * See Madame CAMPAN'S Mi-moira, Tom. I. p. 233. "The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn oat, And Btript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be... | |
 | Francis H. Smith - 1860 - 244 pages
...following epitapli on himself, which was found among his papers after 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 work itself shall not be lost,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 794 pages
...was only twenty-two years of age, he wrote the following epitaph for himself : 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 work shall not be lost,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 788 pages
...was only twenty-two years of age, he wrote the following epitaph for himself: 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 work shall not be lost,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pages
...himself, at the age of twenty-three, while a journeyman printer : — The Body of BESJAMIN FRANLIN, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book. Its contents torn out, And stripl of ita letteriug and gilding.) Lies food for worms : Yet the work itself shall not bo lost,... | |
 | 1868 - 588 pages
...Emigravit." ; Again, there is Franklin's famous epitaph for himself: " The Body of BENJAMIN FEANKLIN, 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 work itself shall not be... | |
 | Perseverance - 1862 - 310 pages
...grave, which, by his own wish, bears only his name and the date of 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 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... 
