| Tom Huntington - 2006 - 100 Seiten
...wit and personality of the Benjamin Franklin we like to remember: The Body of B. 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 wholly lost.... | |
| T. T. Crabtree - 2006 - 401 Seiten
...conveys the hope we have that Christ has a glorious life for us after we shed the life we are living now. 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... | |
| Michael Gelb, Sarah Miller Caldicott - 2007 - 328 Seiten
...philosophical perspective by publishing a prospective epitaph for himself, which read: "The body of B. 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... | |
| Poor Richard - 2007 - 102 Seiten
...Catholics, Protestant by Protestants and Quaker by Quakers. His self -written epitaph was "The Body of B. 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 wholly lost:... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 513 Seiten
...only 23 years of age, I wrote the following epitaph, and gave it to many of my friends: The Body of B 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 wholly lost:... | |
| Gus Spector - 2007 - 134 Seiten
...at Fifth and Arch Streets, as seen in this 1908 postcard. He wrote his own epitaph: "The Body of B. Franklin Printer, (Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents torn out And stript of its Lettering & Gilding) Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be lost; For it... | |
| Max Cavitch - 363 Seiten
...not simply as a printer but as a man who would find both life and afterlife in print: The Body of B. 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 wholly lost:... | |
| John Davey - 2007 - 405 Seiten
...the wall. "The body of Benjamin Franklin (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here, food for worms but the work itself shall not be lost for it will, as he believed appear once more in a new and more elegant edition... | |
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