[DOC] [TLE] Compare these two epitaphs of Benjamin Franklin. Why do you think ... [PAR] Feb 3, 2008 ... The Epitaph of Young Benjamin Franklin The body of B. Franklin, ... torn Out And 
Stript of its Lettering and Gilding) Lies Here, Food for Worms. ... (Like the Cover of 
an Old Book ... Update: If you could have made him one what would it have said? 
... and so wrote a long, witty and laudatory epitaph for himself. [DOC] [TLE] On Epitaphic Fictions: Ben Franklin, W. B. Yeats - Paris Review [PAR] Apr 28, 2014 ... The first in a three-part series on writers' epitaphs. ... Dr. Johnson understood that 
words on headstones provide cover stories. ... And Stript of its Lettering and 
Gilding, ... Franklin is ahead of himself in his rock-solid grasp of these 
conventions. ... gives us a sharper likeness of him than the hundred-dollar bill. [DOC] [TLE] Benjamin Franklin's epitaph | Lisa's History Room [PAR] Franklin wrote a mock epitaph for himself in doggerel verse. ... 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. ... Because Benjamin was 
so bookish, his father apprenticed him to a printer  Benjamin's brother, James. [DOC] [TLE] Benjamin Franklin - USHistory.org [PAR] Ben Franklin ... Franklin himself had composed the black-bordered Pennsylvania 
Gazette which ... His daughter, Sally, told him that she hoped he would live many 
years more. ... As a young man in 1728, Franklin had composed his own mock 
epitaph ... Like the Cover of an old Book, ... And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, [DOC] [TLE] Your Epitaph: Here Lies . . . (in 50 Words or Less, Please) - latimes [PAR] Oct 31, 1990 ... I applaud the 50-word limit, since brevity is the soul of epitaphs, ... I had to look 
him up in Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia. ... Perhaps the only epitaph among 
these that is still quoted (except for ... Ben Franklin's epitaph too was not the one 
he had written for himself. ... And stript of its lettering and gilding,. [DOC] [TLE] Benjamin Franklin and the American Enlightenment Dr. Richard ... [PAR] make history, to leave the mark of one's deeds and ideals on the world. ... Like 
the cover of an old Book,. Its Contents torn out,. And stript of its Lettering and 
Gilding, ... Franklin's own ability to identify himself with a set of values and 
aspirations that were ... While many have lauded him as a shining exemplar of 
the virtues of. [DOC] [TLE] The Creed - The New Yorker [PAR] Jan 28, 2008 ... Benjamin Franklin's genius gave him no rest. ... In all his fifty-one years, he could 
barely remember having spent Time so ... is also a parody, stitched and bound 
between the covers of a sham. .... What really set Franklin's almanacs apart was 
Poor Richard himself, ..... And stript of its Lettering and Gilding,. [DOC] [TLE] Writing on Writing on Writing: An afternoon's foray into marginalia ... [PAR] Feb 18, 2014 ... These almanacs interested us not only for their content, but for the ... and it is said 
that he read himself to sleep with D'Israeli's books. ... However, Byron affirms the 
second statementone deep ... Indeed, he composed an epitaph as a young 
man in 1728 that read: ... And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding). [DOC] [TLE] Apology for Printers | multimediaman [PAR] (Like the Cover of an Old Book Its Contents torn Out And Stript of its Lettering and 
Gilding) ... the names of himself and his wifeDeborah Read Franklinwho 
preceded him in ... In his will, however, he identified himself thus: I, Benjamin 
Franklin, ... The following year he became publisher of The Pennsylvania Gazette
, one... [DOC] [TLE] Epitaphs - Wikiquote [PAR] "A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough" ..... these words to 
be

Question: Ben's epitaph for himself compared him to the cover of one of these, "stript of its lettering and gilding"
Answer: a book