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 36
... Labour of Poor R. SAUNDERS . Presumptuous Man ! the Reason wouldst thou find Why form'd so weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy ...
... Labour of Poor R. SAUNDERS . Presumptuous Man ! the Reason wouldst thou find Why form'd so weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy ...
Page 140
... Labours for the Toy we seek , Join Night to Day , and Sunday to the Week , Our very Joys are anxious , and expire ... labour to possess their own , To feel their great Abundance ; and request Their humble Friends to help them to be ...
... Labours for the Toy we seek , Join Night to Day , and Sunday to the Week , Our very Joys are anxious , and expire ... labour to possess their own , To feel their great Abundance ; and request Their humble Friends to help them to be ...
Page 280
... Labour ? No , for as Poor Richard says , Trouble springs from Idleness , and grievous Toil from needless Ease . Many without Labour , would live by their WITS only , but they break for want of Stock . Whereas Industry gives Comfort ...
... Labour ? No , for as Poor Richard says , Trouble springs from Idleness , and grievous Toil from needless Ease . Many without Labour , would live by their WITS only , but they break for want of Stock . Whereas Industry gives Comfort ...
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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