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 113
... READER , of Whom ? HIS is the Twelfth Year that I have in this Way laboured for the Benefit of the Publick , if you ... Readers gratis in his Almanack for 1743 an Eclipse of the Year 1744 , to be beforehand with me : His Words are ...
... READER , of Whom ? HIS is the Twelfth Year that I have in this Way laboured for the Benefit of the Publick , if you ... Readers gratis in his Almanack for 1743 an Eclipse of the Year 1744 , to be beforehand with me : His Words are ...
Page 173
... READER . HE Hope of acquiring lasting Fame , is , with many Authors , a most powerful Motive to Writing . Some , tho ' few , have suc- ceeded ; and others , tho ' perhaps fewer , may succeed hereafter , and be as well known to Posterity ...
... READER . HE Hope of acquiring lasting Fame , is , with many Authors , a most powerful Motive to Writing . Some , tho ' few , have suc- ceeded ; and others , tho ' perhaps fewer , may succeed hereafter , and be as well known to Posterity ...
Page 174
... Readers forgive , or rebuke him for , as to their Wis- dom and Goodness shall seem meet : For in such Cases the Loss and Damage is chiefly to the Reader , who , if he does not take my Sense at first Reading , ' tis odds he never gets it ...
... Readers forgive , or rebuke him for , as to their Wis- dom and Goodness shall seem meet : For in such Cases the Loss and Damage is chiefly to the Reader , who , if he does not take my Sense at first Reading , ' tis odds he never gets it ...
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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