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 132
... Want of it . For one poor Man there are an hundred indigent . JUNE What's Man's Reward for all his Care and Toil ? But One ; a female Friend's endearing Smile : A tender Smile , our Sorrow's only Balm , And in Life's Tempest the sad ...
... Want of it . For one poor Man there are an hundred indigent . JUNE What's Man's Reward for all his Care and Toil ? But One ; a female Friend's endearing Smile : A tender Smile , our Sorrow's only Balm , And in Life's Tempest the sad ...
Page 280
... Want of Care does us more Damage than Want of Knowledge ; and again , Not to oversee Workmen , is to leave them your Purse open . Trusting too much to others Care is the Ruin of many ; for , as the Almanack says , In the Affairs of this ...
... Want of Care does us more Damage than Want of Knowledge ; and again , Not to oversee Workmen , is to leave them your Purse open . Trusting too much to others Care is the Ruin of many ; for , as the Almanack says , In the Affairs of this ...
Page 282
... want to have them . The artificial Wants of Mankind thus become more numerous than the natural ; and , as Poor Dick says , For one poor Person , there are an hundred indigent . By these , and other Extrava- gancies , the Genteel are ...
... want to have them . The artificial Wants of Mankind thus become more numerous than the natural ; and , as Poor Dick says , For one poor Person , there are an hundred indigent . By these , and other Extrava- gancies , the Genteel are ...
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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