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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... never rides on . Wish not so much to live long as to live well . SEPTEMBER These Lines may be read backward or ... never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold ; but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold ...
... never rides on . Wish not so much to live long as to live well . SEPTEMBER These Lines may be read backward or ... never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold ; but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold ...
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... never saw before , and shall never see again ) may be a happy Year to all my kind Readers . I am , Your faithful Servant , JANUARY R. SAUNDERS . On PUBLICK SPIRIT.27 Where never Science beam'd a friendly Ray , Where one vast Blank ...
... never saw before , and shall never see again ) may be a happy Year to all my kind Readers . I am , Your faithful Servant , JANUARY R. SAUNDERS . On PUBLICK SPIRIT.27 Where never Science beam'd a friendly Ray , Where one vast Blank ...
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... never be Night ; that a little to be spent out of so much , is not worth minding ; ( a Child and a Fool , as Poor Richard says , imagine Twenty Shillings and Twenty Years can never be spent ) but , always taking out of the Meal - tub ...
... never be Night ; that a little to be spent out of so much , is not worth minding ; ( a Child and a Fool , as Poor Richard says , imagine Twenty Shillings and Twenty Years can never be spent ) but , always taking out of the Meal - tub ...
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