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 i
... SAUNDERS , Philom . Wherein are retain'd in their Entirety the Author's Prefaces , Proverbs , Verses , & entertaining Remarks ; Together with those Chronological , Historical , and Scientific Observations which the Author has illumin'd ...
... SAUNDERS , Philom . Wherein are retain'd in their Entirety the Author's Prefaces , Proverbs , Verses , & entertaining Remarks ; Together with those Chronological , Historical , and Scientific Observations which the Author has illumin'd ...
Page vii
... Saunders , who said he was poor but his wife was proud and " could not sit spinning in her shift " while he did nothing but gaze at the stars . When ten thousand copies a year were sold , his wife got a pair of shoes , two new shifts ...
... Saunders , who said he was poor but his wife was proud and " could not sit spinning in her shift " while he did nothing but gaze at the stars . When ten thousand copies a year were sold , his wife got a pair of shoes , two new shifts ...
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... Saunders adds another GROSS FALSHOOD in his Almanack , viz . that by my own Calculation I shall sur- vive until the 26th of the said Month October 1733 , which is as untrue as the former . " Now if it be , as Leeds says , untrue and a ...
... Saunders adds another GROSS FALSHOOD in his Almanack , viz . that by my own Calculation I shall sur- vive until the 26th of the said Month October 1733 , which is as untrue as the former . " Now if it be , as Leeds says , untrue and a ...
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Anno APRIL Astrologers astronomical Benjamin Franklin Body bright chearful Comet Cont'd Dec Cont'd July 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 JUNE 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