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 103
... Head out , fix it upon the other Head , on a Stand , or Blocks in the Cellar , if you have any , if not , in the warm- est Part of the House , about 2 Feet from the Ground ; as the Grapes sink , put up more , for 3 or 4 Days ; after ...
... Head out , fix it upon the other Head , on a Stand , or Blocks in the Cellar , if you have any , if not , in the warm- est Part of the House , about 2 Feet from the Ground ; as the Grapes sink , put up more , for 3 or 4 Days ; after ...
Page 117
... Head with strongest Biass rules , Is Pride , that never - failing Vice of Fools . Whatever Nature has in Worth deny'd , She gives in large Recruits of needful Pride ; For as in Bodies , thus in Souls we find What wants in Blood ...
... Head with strongest Biass rules , Is Pride , that never - failing Vice of Fools . Whatever Nature has in Worth deny'd , She gives in large Recruits of needful Pride ; For as in Bodies , thus in Souls we find What wants in Blood ...
Page 165
... head is wax , don't walk in the Sun. Pretty & Witty , will wound if they hit ye . Having been poor is no shame , but being ashamed of it , is . On the 12th of this month , anno 1712 , died Richard the son of Oliver Cromwell , aged 90 ...
... head is wax , don't walk in the Sun. Pretty & Witty , will wound if they hit ye . Having been poor is no shame , but being ashamed of it , is . On the 12th of this month , anno 1712 , died Richard the son of Oliver Cromwell , aged 90 ...
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