Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758Newly set into type expressly for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1964 - Almanacs, American - 300 pages |
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Franklin had been working with leisure in mind , and in 1748 he retired from the printing business in which he had brought out the first novel printed in America . This was Samuel Richardson's Pamela . He bought a farm of three hundred ...
Franklin had been working with leisure in mind , and in 1748 he retired from the printing business in which he had brought out the first novel printed in America . This was Samuel Richardson's Pamela . He bought a farm of three hundred ...
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beforehand with his Business : It is not only ill Management , but discovers a slothful Disposition , to do that in the Afternoon , which should have been done in the Morning . Useful Attainments in your Minority will procure Riches in ...
beforehand with his Business : It is not only ill Management , but discovers a slothful Disposition , to do that in the Afternoon , which should have been done in the Morning . Useful Attainments in your Minority will procure Riches in ...
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Idleness is the Dead Sea , that swallows all Virtues : Be active in Business , that Temptation may miss her Aim : The Bird that sits , is easily shot . Shame and the Dry - belly - ach were Diseases of the last Age ; this seems to be ...
Idleness is the Dead Sea , that swallows all Virtues : Be active in Business , that Temptation may miss her Aim : The Bird that sits , is easily shot . Shame and the Dry - belly - ach were Diseases of the last Age ; this seems to be ...
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| Title | Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758 Masterpieces of American literature |
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
| Illustrated by | Norman Rockwell |
| Contributors | Van Wyck Brooks, Limited Editions Club, Sign of the Stone Book (Firm) |
| Publisher | Newly set into type expressly for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 300 pages |
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