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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Tongue double , brings trouble . oh SEPTEMBER a Death is a Fisherman , the world we see His Fish - pond is , and we the Fishes be : His Net some general Sickness ; howe'er he Is not so kind as other Fishers be ; For if they take one of ...
Tongue double , brings trouble . oh SEPTEMBER a Death is a Fisherman , the world we see His Fish - pond is , and we the Fishes be : His Net some general Sickness ; howe'er he Is not so kind as other Fishers be ; For if they take one of ...
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Certainlie these things agree , The Priest , the Lawyer , & Death all three : Death takes both the weak and the strong . The lawyer takes from both right and wrong , And the priest from living and dead has his Fee .
Certainlie these things agree , The Priest , the Lawyer , & Death all three : Death takes both the weak and the strong . The lawyer takes from both right and wrong , And the priest from living and dead has his Fee .
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Some with vast costly Tombs would purchase it , And by the Proofs of Death pretend to live . Here lies the Great False Marble , where ? Nothing but small and sordid Dust lies there . Some build enormous Mountain Palaces The Fools and ...
Some with vast costly Tombs would purchase it , And by the Proofs of Death pretend to live . Here lies the Great False Marble , where ? Nothing but small and sordid Dust lies there . Some build enormous Mountain Palaces The Fools and ...
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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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