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 46
... worth of his Time per Day , one Day with another , wastes the Privilege of using 100l . each Day . He that idly loses 5s . worth of time , loses 5s . and might as prudently throw 5s . in the River . He that loses 5s . not only loses ...
... worth of his Time per Day , one Day with another , wastes the Privilege of using 100l . each Day . He that idly loses 5s . worth of time , loses 5s . and might as prudently throw 5s . in the River . He that loses 5s . not only loses ...
Page 58
... worth reading , or do things worth the writing . Sell not virtue to purchase wealth , nor Liberty to 58 Poor Richard : 1738.
... worth reading , or do things worth the writing . Sell not virtue to purchase wealth , nor Liberty to 58 Poor Richard : 1738.
Page 282
... 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 , and never putting in , soon comes to the Bottom ; then , as Poor ...
... 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 , and never putting in , soon comes to the Bottom ; then , as Poor ...
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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