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 ix
... speak . The people had been summoned by crier and bell and they had been plied with rum so that they were ready to pay prices they would never have offered if they had been sober . The times were bad , trade was dull , the French and ...
... speak . The people had been summoned by crier and bell and they had been plied with rum so that they were ready to pay prices they would never have offered if they had been sober . The times were bad , trade was dull , the French and ...
Page 73
... speak in many Places , and there will be above seven and twenty irregular Verbs made this Year , if Grammar don't interpose . Who can help these Misfortunes ! Of the DISEASES this Year . This Year the Stone - blind shall see but very ...
... speak in many Places , and there will be above seven and twenty irregular Verbs made this Year , if Grammar don't interpose . Who can help these Misfortunes ! Of the DISEASES this Year . This Year the Stone - blind shall see but very ...
Page 283
... speak to him ; you will make poor pitiful sneaking Excuses , and by Degrees come to lose your Veracity , and sink into base downright lying ; for , as Poor Richard says , The second Vice is Lying , the first is running in Debt . And ...
... speak to him ; you will make poor pitiful sneaking Excuses , and by Degrees come to lose your Veracity , and sink into base downright lying ; for , as Poor Richard says , The second Vice is Lying , the first is running in Debt . And ...
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