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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... June If you would reap Praise you must sow the Seeds , Gentle Words and useful Deeds . Ignorance leads Men into a Party , and Shame keeps them from getting out again . JUNE To each th ' appointed Sustenance bestows , To each the noxious ...
... June If you would reap Praise you must sow the Seeds , Gentle Words and useful Deeds . Ignorance leads Men into a Party , and Shame keeps them from getting out again . JUNE To each th ' appointed Sustenance bestows , To each the noxious ...
Page 251
... JUNE These Gifts to astronomic Art we owe , Its Use extensive , yet its Growth but slow . If back we look on ancient Sages Schemes , [ Cont'd June They seem ridiculous as Childrens Dreams ; How shall the 251 An Almanack , & c .
... JUNE These Gifts to astronomic Art we owe , Its Use extensive , yet its Growth but slow . If back we look on ancient Sages Schemes , [ Cont'd June They seem ridiculous as Childrens Dreams ; How shall the 251 An Almanack , & c .
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... June Virtue may not always make a Face handsome , but Vice will certainly make it ugly . Prodigality of Time , produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate . JUNE Or should kind Truth invade thy tender Ear , We pity still ; for thou no ...
... June Virtue may not always make a Face handsome , but Vice will certainly make it ugly . Prodigality of Time , produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate . JUNE Or should kind Truth invade thy tender Ear , We pity still ; for thou no ...
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