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 179
... bear a Reproof , and mend by it , if he is not wise , is in a fair way of being so . Beatus esse sine Virtute , nemo potest . On the 22d of this Month , 1453 , was the famous City of Con- stantinople , the Capital of the Greek Empire ...
... bear a Reproof , and mend by it , if he is not wise , is in a fair way of being so . Beatus esse sine Virtute , nemo potest . On the 22d of this Month , 1453 , was the famous City of Con- stantinople , the Capital of the Greek Empire ...
Page 208
... bear much , will have much to bear . Pride dines upon Vanity , sups on Contempt . AUGUST ' Shall Mines obedient aid no Artist's Care , Nor give the martial Sword and peaceful Share ? TANKAN B. FRANKLIN PRINTER Ah ! shall they never ...
... bear much , will have much to bear . Pride dines upon Vanity , sups on Contempt . AUGUST ' Shall Mines obedient aid no Artist's Care , Nor give the martial Sword and peaceful Share ? TANKAN B. FRANKLIN PRINTER Ah ! shall they never ...
Page 284
... bear your Debt in Mind , the Term which at first seemed so long , will , as it lessens , appear extreamly short . Time will seem to have added Wings to his Heels as well as Shoulders . Those have a short Lent , saith Poor Richard , who ...
... bear your Debt in Mind , the Term which at first seemed so long , will , as it lessens , appear extreamly short . Time will seem to have added Wings to his Heels as well as Shoulders . Those have a short Lent , saith Poor Richard , who ...
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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