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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... never rides on . Wish not so much to live long as to live well . SEPTEMBER These Lines may be read backward or ... never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold ; but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into ...
... never rides on . Wish not so much to live long as to live well . SEPTEMBER These Lines may be read backward or ... never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold ; but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into ...
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... never saw before , and shall never see again ) may be a happy Year to all my kind Readers . I am , Your faithful Servant , JANUARY R. SAUNDERS . On PUBLICK SPIRIT.27 Where never Science beam'd a friendly Ray , Where one vast Blank ...
... never saw before , and shall never see again ) may be a happy Year to all my kind Readers . I am , Your faithful Servant , JANUARY R. SAUNDERS . On PUBLICK SPIRIT.27 Where never Science beam'd a friendly Ray , Where one vast Blank ...
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... never be Night ; that a little to be spent out of so much , is not worth minding ; ( a Child and a Fool , as Poor Richard says , imagine Twenty Shillings and Twenty Years can never be spent ) but , always taking out of the Meal - tub ...
... never be Night ; that a little to be spent out of so much , is not worth minding ; ( a Child and a Fool , as Poor Richard says , imagine Twenty Shillings and Twenty Years can never be spent ) but , always taking out of the Meal - tub ...
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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