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 107
... fear . MAY The Snows are gone , and genial Spring once more New clothes the Meads with Grass , the Trees with Leaves ; And the proud Rivers that disdain'd a Shore Within their Banks now roll their lessen'd Waves . Nature seems all renew ...
... fear . MAY The Snows are gone , and genial Spring once more New clothes the Meads with Grass , the Trees with Leaves ; And the proud Rivers that disdain'd a Shore Within their Banks now roll their lessen'd Waves . Nature seems all renew ...
Page 119
... fear'd , are hated . The Things which hurt , instruct . The Eye of a Master , will do more Work than his Hand . A ... Fear God , and your Enemies will fear you . DECEMBER This World's an Inn , all Travellers are we 119 An Almanack , & c .
... fear'd , are hated . The Things which hurt , instruct . The Eye of a Master , will do more Work than his Hand . A ... Fear God , and your Enemies will fear you . DECEMBER This World's an Inn , all Travellers are we 119 An Almanack , & c .
Page 239
... Fear of GOD . Would Heav'n indulgent grant my fond Desire , Thus would I live , and thus should Life expire ... Fears no Man's Frown , nor cringing waits to catch The gracious Nothing of a great Man's Nod ; Where the lac'd Beggar bustles ...
... Fear of GOD . Would Heav'n indulgent grant my fond Desire , Thus would I live , and thus should Life expire ... Fears no Man's Frown , nor cringing waits to catch The gracious Nothing of a great Man's Nod ; Where the lac'd Beggar bustles ...
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