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 34
... round it , Then let him feel ( but give me first the Purse ) And take the first he finds , for better or worse . Round went Evanus till he came where stood St. Michael with the Devil under's Foot ; And groping round , he seiz'd old ...
... round it , Then let him feel ( but give me first the Purse ) And take the first he finds , for better or worse . Round went Evanus till he came where stood St. Michael with the Devil under's Foot ; And groping round , he seiz'd old ...
Page 147
... round it in 365 Days , 6 Hours , & c . and that Day and Night are caused by the Turning of the Earth on its own Axis once round in 24 h . & c . The Ptolomean System , which prevail'd before Copernicus , suppos'd the Earth to be fix'd ...
... round it in 365 Days , 6 Hours , & c . and that Day and Night are caused by the Turning of the Earth on its own Axis once round in 24 h . & c . The Ptolomean System , which prevail'd before Copernicus , suppos'd the Earth to be fix'd ...
Page 228
... Round whose vast Systems , peopled Planets move . Ye central Suns of numerous Earths above . Praise the dread Pow'r , whose Goodness ye proclaim , And let your warbling Spheres attune his Name . Thou Moon , who with thy Rays of silver ...
... Round whose vast Systems , peopled Planets move . Ye central Suns of numerous Earths above . Praise the dread Pow'r , whose Goodness ye proclaim , And let your warbling Spheres attune his Name . Thou Moon , who with thy Rays of silver ...
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Anno APRIL Astrologers astronomical Benjamin Franklin Body bright chearful Comet Cont'd Dec Cont'd July 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 JUNE 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