The works of Dr Benjamin Franklin Author:Benjamin Franklin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EXTRACTS FROM Dtt. FRANKLIN'S WILL. 129 did not appear to suffer any inconvenience in his respiration from these diseases. The following epitaph on himself, w... more »as written by him many years previous to his death— THE BODY 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 a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR. EXTRACTS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF DR. FRANKLIN. With regard to my books, those I had in France, and those I left in Philadelphia, being now assembled together here, and a catalogue made of them, it is my intention to dispose of the same as follows : My " History of the Academy of Sciences," in sixty or seventy volumes quarto, I give to the philosophical society of Philadelphia, of which I have the honour to be president. My collection in folio, of " Les Arts et les Metiers," I give to the American philosophical society, established in New England, of which I am a member My quarto edition of the same, " Arts et Metiers," I give to the library company of Philadelphia Such and so many of my books as I shall mark in the said catalogue, with the name of my grandson Benjamin Franklin Bache, I do hereby give to him : and such and so many of my books as I shall mark in the said catalogue with the name of my grandson William Bache, I do hereby give to him : and such as shall be marked with the name of Jonathan Williams, I hereby give to my cousin of that name. The residue and remainder of all my books, manuscripts, and papers, I do give to my grandson William Temple Franklin. My share in the library company o Phil...« less