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 41
... Place ; what Experience tells you is best , is to be chosen in the second Place ; what Reason ( i.e. Theory ) says is best , is to be chosen in the last Place . But if you can get Dr. Inclination , Dr. Experience and Dr. Reason to hold ...
... Place ; what Experience tells you is best , is to be chosen in the second Place ; what Reason ( i.e. Theory ) says is best , is to be chosen in the last Place . But if you can get Dr. Inclination , Dr. Experience and Dr. Reason to hold ...
Page 272
... Place ; but when they arrive at that Place , and during the Time they remain at it , they shall all keep their Sabbath on one and the same Day ; but when they depart from that Place , they shall all differ as before . II . There is a ...
... Place ; but when they arrive at that Place , and during the Time they remain at it , they shall all keep their Sabbath on one and the same Day ; but when they depart from that Place , they shall all differ as before . II . There is a ...
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... Place Mortals behold thy blooming Face ; Thy gracious Auspices impart , And for thy Temple chuse my Heart . They whom thou deignest to inspire , Thy Science learn , to bound Desire ; By happy Alchymy of Mind They turn to Pleasure all ...
... Place Mortals behold thy blooming Face ; Thy gracious Auspices impart , And for thy Temple chuse my Heart . They whom thou deignest to inspire , Thy Science learn , to bound Desire ; By happy Alchymy of Mind They turn to Pleasure all ...
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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