| Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 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...and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOil. EXTRACTS FROM THB LAST W11.L AND TESTAMENT OF DR. FRANKLIN. WITH regard to my books,... | |
| Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - Bible - 1840 - 386 pages
...his death. 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...and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by The Author. How egregiously do men miss it, when they undertake to make assertions in relation to... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1840 - 528 pages
...body of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PBINTES, Like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and striptof its lettering and gilding, lies here food for worms...and more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended by the Author. JOHN MORTON. JOHN MORTON was a native of Ridley, in the county of Chester, now Delaware.... | |
| 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...lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 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...lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant... | |
| Harmon Kingsbury - Sabbath - 1840 - 404 pages
...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...the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as lie believed,) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by the AUTHOR."... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 664 pages
...it in these words. * See Madame CAMPAH'S Mtmoires, Tom. I. p. 233. "The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And etript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For... | |
| Harmon Kingsbury - Sabbath - 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 torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding,) lies here food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be... | |
| College students' writings, American - 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...will, as he believed, appear once more, in a new and beautiful edition, corrected and amended by the Author." Enough ; good reader, if you have traveled... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - Travel - 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...for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, but will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended... | |
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