Poor Richard: the Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758Newly set into type & printed expressly for the Heritage Press, 1964 - Almanacs, American - 300 pages Wherein are retain'd in their entirety the author's prefaces, proverbs, verses & entertaining remarks ; together with those chronological, historical, and scientific observations which the author has illumin'd with his characteristic wit and wisdom. |
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... DECEMBER She that will eat her breakfast in her bed , And spend the morn in dressing of her head , And sit at dinner like a maiden bride , And talk of nothing all day but of pride ; God in his mercy may do much to save her , But what a ...
... DECEMBER She that will eat her breakfast in her bed , And spend the morn in dressing of her head , And sit at dinner like a maiden bride , And talk of nothing all day but of pride ; God in his mercy may do much to save her , But what a ...
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... DECEMBER By Mrs. Bridget Saunders , my Dutchess , in Answer to the December Verses of last Year . He that for sake of Drink neglects his Trade , And spends each Night in Taverns till ' tis late , And rises when the Sun is four hours ...
... DECEMBER By Mrs. Bridget Saunders , my Dutchess , in Answer to the December Verses of last Year . He that for sake of Drink neglects his Trade , And spends each Night in Taverns till ' tis late , And rises when the Sun is four hours ...
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Benjamin Franklin. DECEMBER The Wiseman says , It is a Wiseman's Part To keep his Tongue close Prisoner in his Heart . If he then be a Fool whose Thought denies There is a God , how desp'rately unwise , How much more Fool is he whose ...
Benjamin Franklin. DECEMBER The Wiseman says , It is a Wiseman's Part To keep his Tongue close Prisoner in his Heart . If he then be a Fool whose Thought denies There is a God , how desp'rately unwise , How much more Fool is he whose ...
Contents
1733 to 1747 3142 | 142 |
Newly Set into Type Printed Expressly | 173 |
1748 to 1758 143291 | 291 |
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Anno APRIL Astrologers astronomical Barbarian Bands Benjamin Franklin bless Body bright chearful Codrus Cont'd Courteous READER Cyder dead dear Death DECEMBER Digits eclipsed divine doth drink e'er Earth Eclipses Edmund Waller Eyes fair Fame fear Fire Fools form'd Franklin Friend give Gold Hand happy hath Heart Heav'n honest Honour Horse Hours JANUARY JULY JUNE keep Kind READER King King of France Labour Lawyer Leeds live Love Lunar Conjunctions Man's MARCH Mind Money month Moon ne'er Neighbour never Night Norman Rockwell Number o'er OCTOBER OLIVER CROMWELL pains Planets Poor Richard says Poor Richard's Almanack Pow'r Praise Pride Publick rich round Saturn SAUNDERS Sense SEPTEMBER shine Soul Stars sweet thee there's things Thracian thro Tongue Truth twill Virtue Wealth Wife Winter Wisdom wise World