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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... Pleasures ; the Knave takes Pleasure , and then suffers Pains . Think of three Things , whence you came , where you are going , and to whom you must account . JUNE Where purple Violets hang their bashful Heads , Where yellow Cowslips ...
... Pleasures ; the Knave takes Pleasure , and then suffers Pains . Think of three Things , whence you came , where you are going , and to whom you must account . JUNE Where purple Violets hang their bashful Heads , Where yellow Cowslips ...
Page 247
... Pleasure , or Com- fort of human Life , that it purifies the Pleasures of it , and renders them more grateful and generous ; and besides this , it brings mighty Pleasures of its own , those of a glorious Hope , a serene Mind , a calm ...
... Pleasure , or Com- fort of human Life , that it purifies the Pleasures of it , and renders them more grateful and generous ; and besides this , it brings mighty Pleasures of its own , those of a glorious Hope , a serene Mind , a calm ...
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... Pleasure , as to find his Works respectfully quoted by other learned Authors . This Pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; for tho ' I have been , if I may say it without Vanity , an eminent Author of Almanacks annually now a full Quarter of ...
... Pleasure , as to find his Works respectfully quoted by other learned Authors . This Pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ; for tho ' I have been , if I may say it without Vanity , an eminent Author of Almanacks annually now a full Quarter of ...
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