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 viii
... Soon to be the chief printer of the province , and the most genial and cheerful of men , he was full of homely wisdom and common sense . Since running away from Boston and walking the fifty miles from Perth Amboy across New Jersey , he ...
... Soon to be the chief printer of the province , and the most genial and cheerful of men , he was full of homely wisdom and common sense . Since running away from Boston and walking the fifty miles from Perth Amboy across New Jersey , he ...
Page ix
Benjamin Franklin. His sayings soon passed into everyday speech and were quoted in ser- mons , on the title pages of ... soon translated into Russian , Welsh , and Chinese , into Catalan , Bohemian , Polish , and Gaelic . Franklin may ...
Benjamin Franklin. His sayings soon passed into everyday speech and were quoted in ser- mons , on the title pages of ... soon translated into Russian , Welsh , and Chinese , into Catalan , Bohemian , Polish , and Gaelic . Franklin may ...
Page 58
... soon ; Your Sires i'th ' Morning left the Plow , And ours i'th ' Afternoon . Cæsar did not merit the triumphal Car , more than he that conquers himself . Hast thou virtue ? acquire also the graces & beauties of virtue . Buy what thou ...
... soon ; Your Sires i'th ' Morning left the Plow , And ours i'th ' Afternoon . Cæsar did not merit the triumphal Car , more than he that conquers himself . Hast thou virtue ? acquire also the graces & beauties of virtue . Buy what thou ...
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