True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 78
great benefit to our country. After all these great deeds and many smaller ones, whichit would fill a book to tell, he prepared to leave France, wherehe had been for more than ten years. He was over eightyyears of age and beginning to suffer with gout. So the Queenof France had him carried to the… … FRANKLINS GRAVE,Corner Fifth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia. 8o BENJAMIN FRANKLIN highest to the lowest, joined in his praises and all those near enough went to see him. He was, next to Washington, themost honored man in the country. But would you not thinkthey would let the dear old man rest the…
