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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... Wealth , " composed of a string of adages from the al- manac . Poor Richard was supposed to have been at a country auction when a wise old man , Father Abraham , got up to speak . The people had been summoned by crier and bell and they ...
... Wealth , " composed of a string of adages from the al- manac . Poor Richard was supposed to have been at a country auction when a wise old man , Father Abraham , got up to speak . The people had been summoned by crier and bell and they ...
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Benjamin Franklin. From Madmen's Hands I did my Wealth receive , Therefore that Wealth to Madmen's Hands I leave . There have been as great Souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous . Do good to thy Friend to keep him , to thy ...
Benjamin Franklin. From Madmen's Hands I did my Wealth receive , Therefore that Wealth to Madmen's Hands I leave . There have been as great Souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous . Do good to thy Friend to keep him , to thy ...
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... Wealth , or wild Ambition's Sway Push forward , still regardless of the Way ; High and more high who aim with restless Pride , Where neither Reason nor fair Virtue guide ; And Him , the Wretch , who labours on with Pain , For the low ...
... Wealth , or wild Ambition's Sway Push forward , still regardless of the Way ; High and more high who aim with restless Pride , Where neither Reason nor fair Virtue guide ; And Him , the Wretch , who labours on with Pain , For the low ...
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