After the death of Burns’s father William Burnes on 13 February 1784, this was one of a number of epitaphs which was selected by the poet for inclusion in the Kilmarnock edition. Worn out by ...

This encounter with the devil long pre-dated his actual demise. William Fisher, however hard to like, at least had the satisfaction of outliving his epitaph, and its author, by thirteen years.

Economic historian Phillip Magness at the American Institute for Economic Research has written — by his account — an “epitaph” for the Times‘ 1619 Project. He claims that the paper’s ...