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 156
... bear any thing but beauty , order , elegance & perfec- tion ! Your man of taste , is nothing but a man of distaste . NOVEMBER Nor be the Husband idle , tho ' his Land Yields plenteous Crops without his lab'ring Hand : Tho ' his ...
... bear any thing but beauty , order , elegance & perfec- tion ! Your man of taste , is nothing but a man of distaste . NOVEMBER Nor be the Husband idle , tho ' his Land Yields plenteous Crops without his lab'ring Hand : Tho ' his ...
Page 235
... 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 be visible by us at this Distance , we can hardly suppose the Divine Wisdom ...
... 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 be visible by us at this Distance , we can hardly suppose the Divine Wisdom ...
Page 284
... bear your Debt in Mind , the Term which at first seemed so long , will , as it lessens , appear extreamly short . Time will seem to have added Wings to his Heels as well as Shoulders . Those have a short Lent , saith Poor Richard , who ...
... bear your Debt in Mind , the Term which at first seemed so long , will , as it lessens , appear extreamly short . Time will seem to have added Wings to his Heels as well as Shoulders . Those have a short Lent , saith Poor Richard , who ...
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