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 117
... 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 & Spirits , swell'd with Wind . Hear Reason ...
... 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 & Spirits , swell'd with Wind . Hear Reason ...
Page 240
... Pride , Rich with whate'er the imitative Arts , Painting or Sculpture , yield to charm the Eye ; Nor shining Heaps of massy Plate , enwrought With curious , costly Workmanship , allure . Tempted nor with the Pride nor Pomp of Power ...
... Pride , Rich with whate'er the imitative Arts , Painting or Sculpture , yield to charm the Eye ; Nor shining Heaps of massy Plate , enwrought With curious , costly Workmanship , allure . Tempted nor with the Pride nor Pomp of Power ...
Page 283
... Pride is as loud a Beggar as Want , and a great deal more saucy . When you have bought one fine Thing you must buy ... Pride that dines on Vanity sups on Contempt , as Poor Richard says . And in another Place , Pride break- fasted with ...
... Pride is as loud a Beggar as Want , and a great deal more saucy . When you have bought one fine Thing you must buy ... Pride that dines on Vanity sups on Contempt , as Poor Richard says . And in another Place , Pride break- fasted with ...
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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