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 xiii
... astronomical material has been omitted , as well as a few factual articles to which Poor Richard contributed neither his wit nor his wisdom . The reader's attention is drawn to the Notes in the Appendix for ( a ) Poor Richard's use of ...
... astronomical material has been omitted , as well as a few factual articles to which Poor Richard contributed neither his wit nor his wisdom . The reader's attention is drawn to the Notes in the Appendix for ( a ) Poor Richard's use of ...
Page 190
... astronomical Signals that are to alarm Mankind of what is coming , viz . The Northern Lights since 1715 ; the six Comets at the Protestant Reformation in four Years , 1530 , 1531 , 1533 , 1534 , compar'd with the seven Comets already ...
... astronomical Signals that are to alarm Mankind of what is coming , viz . The Northern Lights since 1715 ; the six Comets at the Protestant Reformation in four Years , 1530 , 1531 , 1533 , 1534 , compar'd with the seven Comets already ...
Page 297
... astronomical data , Church days , anniversaries of historical events , high tide in Philadelphia , and the moon's zodiacal position ; Franklin filled in the blanks with aphorisms . Astrologers related various parts of the body to the ...
... astronomical data , Church days , anniversaries of historical events , high tide in Philadelphia , and the moon's zodiacal position ; Franklin filled in the blanks with aphorisms . Astrologers related various parts of the body to the ...
Contents
1733 to 1747 3142 | 142 |
Newly Set into Type Printed Expressly | 173 |
1748 to 1758 143291 | 291 |
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Anno APRIL Astrologers astronomical Barbarian Bands Benjamin Franklin bless Body bright chearful Codrus Cont'd Courteous READER Cyder dead dear Death DECEMBER Digits eclipsed divine doth drink e'er Earth Eclipses Edmund Waller Eyes fair Fame fear Fire Fools form'd Franklin Friend give Gold Hand happy hath Heart Heav'n honest Honour Horse Hours JANUARY JULY JUNE keep Kind READER King King of France Labour Lawyer Leeds live Love Lunar Conjunctions Man's MARCH Mind Money month Moon ne'er Neighbour never Night Norman Rockwell Number o'er OCTOBER OLIVER CROMWELL pains Planets Poor Richard says Poor Richard's Almanack Pow'r Praise Pride Publick rich round Saturn SAUNDERS Sense SEPTEMBER shine Soul Stars sweet thee there's things Thracian thro Tongue Truth twill Virtue Wealth Wife Winter Wisdom wise World