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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... tell , To him thy freedom thou dost sell . OCTOBER On T. T. who destroy'd his Landlord's fine Wood . Indulgent Nature to each kind bestows , A secret Instinct to discern its Foes : The Goose , a silly Bird , avoids the Fox ; Lambs fly ...
... tell , To him thy freedom thou dost sell . OCTOBER On T. T. who destroy'd his Landlord's fine Wood . Indulgent Nature to each kind bestows , A secret Instinct to discern its Foes : The Goose , a silly Bird , avoids the Fox ; Lambs fly ...
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... tell ; For , if she talks not , she's in Hell : If she's in Heaven , she's there unblest , Because she hates a Place of Rest . Let thy vices die before thee . Keep your eyes wide open before marriage , half shut afterwards . The ancients ...
... tell ; For , if she talks not , she's in Hell : If she's in Heaven , she's there unblest , Because she hates a Place of Rest . Let thy vices die before thee . Keep your eyes wide open before marriage , half shut afterwards . The ancients ...
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... tell him your Faults , greater to tell him his . SEPTEMBER Ah ! what is Life ? With Ills encompass'd round , Amidst our Hopes , Fate strikes the sudden Wound ; To - day the Statesman of new Honour dreams , To - morrow Death destroys his ...
... tell him your Faults , greater to tell him his . SEPTEMBER Ah ! what is Life ? With Ills encompass'd round , Amidst our Hopes , Fate strikes the sudden Wound ; To - day the Statesman of new Honour dreams , To - morrow Death destroys his ...
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