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 57
... Rule our Lives will not comply , We bend it like a Rule of Lead , say I ; Making it thus comply with what we be , And only thus our Lives with th ' Rule agree . But from our Fathers we've the Name ( perchance ) Ay , so our King is call ...
... Rule our Lives will not comply , We bend it like a Rule of Lead , say I ; Making it thus comply with what we be , And only thus our Lives with th ' Rule agree . But from our Fathers we've the Name ( perchance ) Ay , so our King is call ...
Page 65
... rule the Day , and the Mhoon to rule the Nights ? For the shun in the Day - time there ish no Ochashun ; Because we can she vhery whell all over the Nashun . But for the Mhoons , they are very good in a dark Night . Becaush , when we ...
... rule the Day , and the Mhoon to rule the Nights ? For the shun in the Day - time there ish no Ochashun ; Because we can she vhery whell all over the Nashun . But for the Mhoons , they are very good in a dark Night . Becaush , when we ...
Page 235
... Rule and Guidance , and that no one Part of Nature can break loose upon , or bear down another , without his Permission . If we consider the immense Distance of the fixed Stars , and conse- quently , the Magnitude they must be of , to ...
... Rule and Guidance , and that no one Part of Nature can break loose upon , or bear down another , without his Permission . If we consider the immense Distance of the fixed Stars , and conse- quently , the Magnitude they must be of , to ...
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