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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... loves to take his Range ; From whom Man learns to love , and loves to change . ♂ is disarmed , and to gone , Where Vulcan's Anvil must be struck upon . That Luna's horn'd , it cannot well be said , Since I ne'er heard that she was ...
... loves to take his Range ; From whom Man learns to love , and loves to change . ♂ is disarmed , and to gone , Where Vulcan's Anvil must be struck upon . That Luna's horn'd , it cannot well be said , Since I ne'er heard that she was ...
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... Love well , whip well . MARCH My Love and I for Kisses play'd , She would keep stakes , I was content , But when I won she would be paid ; This made me ask her what she meant : Quoth she , since you are in this wrangling vein , Here ...
... Love well , whip well . MARCH My Love and I for Kisses play'd , She would keep stakes , I was content , But when I won she would be paid ; This made me ask her what she meant : Quoth she , since you are in this wrangling vein , Here ...
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... love . He that falls in love with himself , will have no Rivals . Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience , and the second may be what thou wilt . Blessed is he that expects nothing , for he shall never be disappointed . Rather go to ...
... love . He that falls in love with himself , will have no Rivals . Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience , and the second may be what thou wilt . Blessed is he that expects nothing , for he shall never be disappointed . Rather go to ...
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