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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Benjamin Franklin. 1737 T Poor Richard's Almanack , & c . Courteous and Kind READER HIS is the fifth Time I have appear ... Reader will have , be he where he will at the time . We modestly desire only the favourable Allowance of a day or ...
Benjamin Franklin. 1737 T Poor Richard's Almanack , & c . Courteous and Kind READER HIS is the fifth Time I have appear ... Reader will have , be he where he will at the time . We modestly desire only the favourable Allowance of a day or ...
Page 113
Benjamin Franklin. 1744 粒 Poor Richard's Almanack , & c . T Courteous READER , of Whom ? HIS is the Twelfth Year ... Readers gratis in his Almanack for 1743 an Eclipse of the Year 1744 , to be beforehand with me : His Words are , " The ...
Benjamin Franklin. 1744 粒 Poor Richard's Almanack , & c . T Courteous READER , of Whom ? HIS is the Twelfth Year ... Readers gratis in his Almanack for 1743 an Eclipse of the Year 1744 , to be beforehand with me : His Words are , " The ...
Page 174
... Readers forgive , or rebuke him for , as to their Wis- dom and Goodness shall seem meet : For in such Cases the Loss and Damage is chiefly to the Reader , who , if he does not take my Sense at first Reading , ' tis odds he never gets it ...
... Readers forgive , or rebuke him for , as to their Wis- dom and Goodness shall seem meet : For in such Cases the Loss and Damage is chiefly to the Reader , who , if he does not take my Sense at first Reading , ' tis odds he never gets it ...
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