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 121
... called fixed Stars , because they keep the same Dis- tance from one another , and from the Ecliptic ; they rise and set on the same Points of the Horizon , and appear like so many lucid Points fixed to the celestial Firmament . The ...
... called fixed Stars , because they keep the same Dis- tance from one another , and from the Ecliptic ; they rise and set on the same Points of the Horizon , and appear like so many lucid Points fixed to the celestial Firmament . The ...
Page 203
... called Bissextile , contains 366. – Names and Order of the Months of the Julian Year , and the Number of Days in each , are well known to us , having been long in Use . - The astronomical Quantity , therefore , of the Julian Year , is ...
... called Bissextile , contains 366. – Names and Order of the Months of the Julian Year , and the Number of Days in each , are well known to us , having been long in Use . - The astronomical Quantity , therefore , of the Julian Year , is ...
Page 234
... called Comets , to be considered as Part of the Solar System Comets differ very much in Appearance one from another , and all from the Planets , in that they all look dusky and gloomy , as if surrounded with a very gross Atmosphere ...
... called Comets , to be considered as Part of the Solar System Comets differ very much in Appearance one from another , and all from the Planets , in that they all look dusky and gloomy , as if surrounded with a very gross Atmosphere ...
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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