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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Page 117
... Pride , that never - failing Vice of Fools . Whatever Nature has in Worth deny'd , She gives in large Recruits of needful Pride ; For as in Bodies , thus in Souls we find What wants in Blood & Spirits , swell'd with Wind . Hear Reason ...
... Pride , that never - failing Vice of Fools . Whatever Nature has in Worth deny'd , She gives in large Recruits of needful Pride ; For as in Bodies , thus in Souls we find What wants in Blood & Spirits , swell'd with Wind . Hear Reason ...
Page 167
Benjamin Franklin. PRIDE is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of . ' Tis a meer Proteus , and disguises ... Pride and Gout are seldom cur'd throughout . SEPTEMBER Wouldst thou extract the purest Sweet of Life , 167 An ...
Benjamin Franklin. PRIDE is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of . ' Tis a meer Proteus , and disguises ... Pride and Gout are seldom cur'd throughout . SEPTEMBER Wouldst thou extract the purest Sweet of Life , 167 An ...
Page 283
... Pride that dines on Vanity sups on Contempt , as Poor Richard says . And in another Place , Pride break- fasted with Plenty , dined with Poverty , and supped with Infamy . And after all , of what Use is this Pride of Appearance , for ...
... Pride that dines on Vanity sups on Contempt , as Poor Richard says . And in another Place , Pride break- fasted with Plenty , dined with Poverty , and supped with Infamy . And after all , of what Use is this Pride of Appearance , for ...
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Anno APRIL Astrologers astronomical Benjamin Franklin Body bright chearful Comet Cont'd July 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 hast hath Heart Heav'n honest Honour Horse Hours JANUARY JULIUS CÆSAR JUNE keep Kind READER King King of France 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 Virtue Wealth Wife Wisdom wise World