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 into ...
... 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 into ...
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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 ...
Page 282
... 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 ...
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Anno APRIL Astrologers astronomical Benjamin Franklin Body bright chearful Comet Cont'd July Cont'd Nov Cont'd Oct Cont'd Sept Courteous READER Cyder dear Death Digits eclipsed divine drink e'er Earth Eclipses Edmund Waller Edward Young Fame Fire Folly Fools form'd Franklin Friend give Hand happy hast hath Heart Heav'n honest Honour Horse Hours JANUARY JULIUS CÆSAR JUNE keep Kind READER King King of France Labour live Love Man's MARCH Mind Money Month Moon Nature ne'er Neighbours never Night NORMAN ROCKWELL Number o'er OCTOBER OLIVER CROMWELL Pain Planets Pleasure Poor Richard says Poor Richard's Almanack Pow'r Praise Pride Publick Reason rich rise round Saturn SAUNDERS Sense SEPTEMBER shine Soul Stars sweet thee there's Things thou thro Tongue Truth twill Virtue Wealth Wife Wisdom wise World