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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Page ix
... country auction when a wise old man , Father Abraham , got up to speak . The people had been summoned by crier and bell and they had been plied with rum so that they were ready to pay prices they would never have offered if they had ...
... country auction when a wise old man , Father Abraham , got up to speak . The people had been summoned by crier and bell and they had been plied with rum so that they were ready to pay prices they would never have offered if they had ...
Page 67
... Country Codrus suffer'd by the Sword , And , by his Death , his Country's Fame restor❜d ; Cæsar into his Mother's Bosom bare Fire , Sword , and all the Ills of civil War : Codrus confirm'd his Country's wholesome Laws ; Cæsar in Blood ...
... Country Codrus suffer'd by the Sword , And , by his Death , his Country's Fame restor❜d ; Cæsar into his Mother's Bosom bare Fire , Sword , and all the Ills of civil War : Codrus confirm'd his Country's wholesome Laws ; Cæsar in Blood ...
Page 237
... Country are so lofty , that the highest we have , being compared to them , are mere Mole - hills . This Extract relates chiefly to the Country among those Mountains . The Method of this Almanack is the same I have observed for some ...
... Country are so lofty , that the highest we have , being compared to them , are mere Mole - hills . This Extract relates chiefly to the Country among those Mountains . The Method of this Almanack is the same I have observed for some ...
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Anno APRIL Astrologers astronomical Benjamin Franklin Body bright chearful Comet Cont'd Dec Cont'd June Cont'd Nov Cont'd Oct Cont'd Sept Courteous READER Cyder dear Death Digits eclipsed divine drink e'er Earth Eclipses Edmund Waller Edward Young Fame Fire Folly Fools form'd Franklin Friend give Hand happy hath Heart Heav'n honest Honour Hours JANUARY Julius Cæsar JULY keep Kind READER King Labour live Love Man's MARCH Mind Money Month Moon Nature ne'er Neighbours never Night Norman Rockwell Number o'er OCTOBER OLIVER CROMWELL Pain Planets Pleasure Poor Richard says Poor Richard's Almanack Pow'r Praise Pride Publick Reason rich rise round Saturn SAUNDERS Sense SEPTEMBER shine Soul Stars sweet thee there's Things thou thro Tongue Truth twill Van Wyck Brooks Virtue Want Wealth Wife Wisdom wise World