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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... Wish a miser long life , and you wish him no good . None but the well bred man knows how to confess a fault , or acknowledge himself in an error . Drive thy business ; let not that drive thee . There is much difference between imitating ...
... Wish a miser long life , and you wish him no good . None but the well bred man knows how to confess a fault , or acknowledge himself in an error . Drive thy business ; let not that drive thee . There is much difference between imitating ...
Page 198
... wish to stretch this narrow Span , To suffer Life beyond the Date of Man ? The virtuous Soul pursues a nobler Aim ... wishes to get free , To launch from Earth into ETERNITY . For while the boundless Theme extends our Thought , Ten ...
... wish to stretch this narrow Span , To suffer Life beyond the Date of Man ? The virtuous Soul pursues a nobler Aim ... wishes to get free , To launch from Earth into ETERNITY . For while the boundless Theme extends our Thought , Ten ...
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... Wishes , he would double his Troubles . NOVEMBER ' Let Those , whose Sorrows from Neglect are known , ( Here taught compell'd empower'd ) Neglect attone ! Let Those enjoy ( who never merit Woes ) In Youth th ' industrious Wish , in Age ...
... Wishes , he would double his Troubles . NOVEMBER ' Let Those , whose Sorrows from Neglect are known , ( Here taught compell'd empower'd ) Neglect attone ! Let Those enjoy ( who never merit Woes ) In Youth th ' industrious Wish , in Age ...
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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