 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1854 - 560 pages
...readers, I imagine, are already well acquainted with the following epitaph which he wrote for himself : 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... | |
 | Presidents - 1855 - 512 pages
...divine revelation. The following epitaph on 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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 294 pages
...wrote in his days of 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...here the epitaph 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...taste to put the quaint 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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...wrote in his days of youth, at the ago ot' twenty-three, was not placed over his grave in Philadelphia. The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its content-) torn out, And stript of it« lettering nml gilding,) Lies höre, food for worms. Yet the... | |
 | William Ross Wallace - Death - 1856 - 192 pages
...similarity between the 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... | |
 | William Allen - History - 1857 - 930 pages
...bimself many years previously to his death ; probably suggested by Woodbridge's lines on John Cotton : " The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out. And gtrlpt of its lettering and gilding, Lies here, food for worms; Yet tho work itself shall... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 pages
...himself — written many 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... | |
 | William Chambers - Biography - 1859 - 600 pages
...in the immortality of the soul is inconsistent with a knowledge and love of natural science : — ' The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book with its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding), lies here food for worms : yet... | |
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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... 
