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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... "
An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary: Containing an Account of ... - Page 394
by William Allen - 1832 - 800 pages
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Handbuch der englischen sprache und literature, Volume 1

H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...'•'*';• 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. Das bekannte Hemistich, mit welchem ihn d' Ale mb er t bei seiner Aufnahme in die Französische Akademie...
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Museum Americanum, Or, Select Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties, and ...

Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, but (as he believed•) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR." PATRICK HENRY. (From the Monthly Magazine, 1S18J PATRICK HENRY, was born on the 29tl> of May, 1736,...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...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. EXTRACTS FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF DR. FRANKLIN. WITH regard to my books, those I had in...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Including a Sketch of the Rise and Progress ...

United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...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. In Dr Smith's eulogium upon Franklin, he read the following extract of a letter from .his successor...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Including a Sketch of the Rise and Progress ...

United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...food for worms; yet the work itself shall not be lost, tor it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR. In Dr Smith's eulogium upon Franklin, he read the following extract of a letter from his successor...
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Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence

Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 pages
...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. JOHN MORTON. JOHN MORTON was a native of Ridley, in the county of Chester, now Delaware. His ancestors...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 9

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...fuod 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. His funeral is said to have been more numerously and more respectably attended than any other that...
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Songs of the Press and Other Poems, Relative to the Art of Printing ...

Songs - Printing - 1833 - 142 pages
...food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will (as he believes) appear once more, In a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended By the Author. Benjamin Franklin, LLD was born at Boston in 1706; at a proper age he was placed with an elder brother,...
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The authenticity of the Bible

Origen Bacheler - Bible - 1833 - 388 pages
...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. How egregiously do men miss it, when they undertake to make assertions in. relation to things concealing...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: With Many Choice Anecdotes and Admirable ...

Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1835 - 262 pages
...food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be lost; fin it will, as he believed, appear once more IN A NEW and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended BY THE AUTHOR." This epitaph was never put upon his tomb. But the friend ol man needs no stone of the valley to perpetuate...
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