 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...(composed by Himself.) THE BODY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PRINTER, LIKE THE COVER OF AN OLD BOOK, ITS CONTESTS TORN OUT, AND STRIPPED OF ITS LETTERING AND GILDING, LIES HERE, FOOD FOR WORMS : YET THE WORK ITSELF SHALL NOT BE LOST, BUT WILL, AS HE BELIEVED, APPEAR ONCE MORE IN A NEW AND MORE... | |
 | 1812 - 384 pages
...When death claim* his debt, will plead tenON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, FAS The Body of BEMJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book,) Its contents torn out, b...'(And strip! of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms ; Yet the work itself shall... | |
 | Harmon Kingsbury - 1840 - 402 pages
...epitaph was written by himself, many years previous to his death: " The Body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents...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 a new and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 pages
...it in these words. • See Madame CAMPAN'S Mtmoires, Tom. I. p. 233. "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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 342 pages
...epitaph on himself, was written by him many years previous to his death : — THE BODY 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...in these words. • See Madame CAMFAN'S Mdmoires, Tom. I. p. 233. "The Body Of I 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... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 530 pages
...himself, and intended by him to be inscribed upon his tombstone : ' The body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents...lettering and gilding), lies here, food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, but will (as he believed) appear once more * The venerable... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 590 pages
...himself, and intended by him to be inscribed upon his tombstone : ' 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... | |
 | 1841 - 474 pages
...directly from Cotton Mather's Magnolia : 355 THE FAERIE BRIDAL. [AugUst, " The body of BENJAMIN FHANKLW, 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... | |
 | Edward Currier - 1841 - 474 pages
...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 gilding, lies here food for worms. Yet ihe 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... 
