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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HO NOVEMBER When you are sick , what you like best is to be chosen for a Medicine in the first Place ; what Experience tells you is best , is to be chosen in the second place ; what Reason ( i.e. Theory ) ...
HO NOVEMBER When you are sick , what you like best is to be chosen for a Medicine in the first Place ; what Experience tells you is best , is to be chosen in the second place ; what Reason ( i.e. Theory ) ...
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So that , if an Angel were to come from some other World , and to place himself near the Earth's Way , he would see it pass by him with a Swiftness , to which that of a Cannon Ball is but as one to one hundred , and would be left behind ...
So that , if an Angel were to come from some other World , and to place himself near the Earth's Way , he would see it pass by him with a Swiftness , to which that of a Cannon Ball is but as one to one hundred , and would be left behind ...
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a of the Globe , to which if a Christian , Jew , and Turk sail in one and the same Ship , they shall keep the Time for their Worship on different Days , as above , all the Time they are sailing to that particular Place ; ; but when they ...
a of the Globe , to which if a Christian , Jew , and Turk sail in one and the same Ship , they shall keep the Time for their Worship on different Days , as above , all the Time they are sailing to that particular Place ; ; but when they ...
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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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