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 198
... present when our Life began , When the warm Dust shot up in breathing Man . Not to oversee Workmen , is to leave them your [ Cont'd Dec. Purse open . The Wise and Brave dares own that he was wrong . Cunning proceeds from Want of ...
... present when our Life began , When the warm Dust shot up in breathing Man . Not to oversee Workmen , is to leave them your [ Cont'd Dec. Purse open . The Wise and Brave dares own that he was wrong . Cunning proceeds from Want of ...
Page 199
... present Nobleman , to exclude all ignoble Blood from his Veins , ought to have had One Million , Forty - eight Thousand , Five Hundred and Seventy six noble Ancestors . Carry the Reckoning back 300 Years farther , and the Number amounts ...
... present Nobleman , to exclude all ignoble Blood from his Veins , ought to have had One Million , Forty - eight Thousand , Five Hundred and Seventy six noble Ancestors . Carry the Reckoning back 300 Years farther , and the Number amounts ...
Page 284
... present , perhaps , you may think yourself in thriving Circumstances , and that you can bear a little Extravagance without Injury ; but , For Age and Want , save while you may ; No Morning Sun lasts a whole Day , as Poor Richard says ...
... present , perhaps , you may think yourself in thriving Circumstances , and that you can bear a little Extravagance without Injury ; but , For Age and Want , save while you may ; No Morning Sun lasts a whole Day , as Poor Richard says ...
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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