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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... kind and virtuous , you'll be blest and wise . Embrace . Courage would fight , but Discretion won't let him . Delicate Dick ! whisper'd the Proclamation . Cornelius ought to be Tacitus . JUNE O , form'd Heav'n's Dictates nobly to ...
... kind and virtuous , you'll be blest and wise . Embrace . Courage would fight , but Discretion won't let him . Delicate Dick ! whisper'd the Proclamation . Cornelius ought to be Tacitus . JUNE O , form'd Heav'n's Dictates nobly to ...
Page 174
... kind , let the Readers forgive , or rebuke him for , as to their Wis- dom and Goodness shall seem meet : For in such ... Kind Reader , Thy obliged Friend , R. SAUNDERS . JANUARY So weak are human Kind by Nature made , Or to such Weakness ...
... kind , let the Readers forgive , or rebuke him for , as to their Wis- dom and Goodness shall seem meet : For in such ... Kind Reader , Thy obliged Friend , R. SAUNDERS . JANUARY So weak are human Kind by Nature made , Or to such Weakness ...
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... Kind Reader , Methinks I hear thee say , That is indeed a good Thing to know how the Time passes , but this Kind of Dial , notwithstanding the mentioned Savings , would be very expensive ; and the Cost greater than the Advantage . Thou ...
... Kind Reader , Methinks I hear thee say , That is indeed a good Thing to know how the Time passes , but this Kind of Dial , notwithstanding the mentioned Savings , would be very expensive ; and the Cost greater than the Advantage . Thou ...
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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