Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanacks, are a classic of American letters and were, in their day, an immensely popular and influential publication. In colonial America they were read by one out of every hundred people; in France alone they went through fifty-six editions. Many of the sayings and homilies in Poor Richard have become a permenant part of American folk wisdom. |
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... Almanack Almanack 1733 Almanack 1733 There's more old Drunkards , than old Doctos The Golden Age was never the present Age . Pour Richard 1733 Almanack 17339 Poets say Fortune's blind ,
... Almanack Almanack 1733 Almanack 1733 There's more old Drunkards , than old Doctos The Golden Age was never the present Age . Pour Richard 1733 Almanack 17339 Poets say Fortune's blind ,
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... Almanack 17339 Poets say Fortune's blind , and cannot see , But. Almanack 1733 . Old Boys have their Playthings as well as young Ones ; the Difference is only in the Price . Almanack 1733 . Neither & fortress A nor a maidenhead will hold ...
... Almanack 17339 Poets say Fortune's blind , and cannot see , But. Almanack 1733 . Old Boys have their Playthings as well as young Ones ; the Difference is only in the Price . Almanack 1733 . Neither & fortress A nor a maidenhead will hold ...
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... Almanack for 1735 , Mr. Leeds once more replied to Poor Richard's joking in these words : " Corteous and kind Reader . My Almanack being in its usual Method , needs no Explanation ; but perhaps it may be expected by some that I shall ...
... Almanack for 1735 , Mr. Leeds once more replied to Poor Richard's joking in these words : " Corteous and kind Reader . My Almanack being in its usual Method , needs no Explanation ; but perhaps it may be expected by some that I shall ...
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