...mehrere Jahre vor seinem Tode vertagst hat und die wir im Original mitzntheilen uns erlauben. Sie lautet: 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 ; Tet the work itself ghall not be lost,...

...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 shall not be lost,...

...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 more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By the Author." I shall conclude this rambling essay by suggesting that some one, qualified for the task,...

...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...its lettering and gilding, Lies here food for worms. Bnt the work shall not be lost ; For it «ill (as he belicvcdj Appear once more In :i new and more...

...torn out, And stript of it« lettering nml gilding,) Lies höre, food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended By The Author.» * We have already printed. aiUJ'. p. Í2.1Vooilbrldzc'.«...

...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 not be lost, For...

...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 shall not be loot....

...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 not be lost...

...for himself at the age of twentythree, which looks to a further remembrance than any earthly tribute: "The Body Of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer .(Like the...here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, ''or it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected...

...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 not be lost...