Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin
Rocket Edition by Jon Craft
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Poor Richard's Almanack 1733
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Poor Richard 1736
Poor Richard 1737
Poor Richard 1738
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Poor Richard 1740
Poor Richard 1741
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Poor Richard 1743
Poor Richard 1744
Poor Richard 1745
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Poor Richard's Almanack
1733
Courteous Reader,
I might in this place at tempt to gain thy Favour, by declaring that I write Almanacks with no other View than that of the publick Good; but in this I should not be sincere; and Men are now a-days too wise to be deceiv'd by Pretences how specious soever. The plain Truth of the Matter is, I am excessive poor, and my Wife, good Woman, is, I tell her, excessive proud; she cannot bear, she says, to sit spinning in her
Shift of Tow, while I do nothing but gaze at the Stars; and has threatned more than once to burn all my
Books and Rattling-Traps (as she calls my Instruments) if I do not make some profitable Use of them for the good of my Family. The Printer has offer'd me some considerable share of the Profits, and I have thus begun to comply with my Dame's desire.
Indeed this Motive would have had Force enough to have made me publish an Almanack many Years since, had it not been overpower'd by my Regard for my good Friend and Fellow-Student, Mr. Titan
Leeds, whose Interest I was extreamly unwilling to hurt: But this Obstacle (I am far from speaking it with
Pleasure) is soon to be removed, since inexorable Death, who was never known to respect Merit, has already prepared the mortal Dart, the fatal
Benjamin Franklin
Rocket Edition by Jon Craft
HTML conversion Sep 1999
Poor Richard's Almanack 1733
Poor Richard 1734
Poor Richard 1735
Poor Richard 1736
Poor Richard 1737
Poor Richard 1738
Poor Richard 1739
Poor Richard 1740
Poor Richard 1741
Poor Richard 1742
Poor Richard 1743
Poor Richard 1744
Poor Richard 1745
Poor Richard 1746
Poor Richard 1747
Poor Richard Improved 1748
Poor Richard Improved 1749
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Poor Richard Improved 1750
Poor Richard Improved 1751
Poor Richard Improved 1752
Poor Richard Improved 1753
Poor Richard Improved 1754
Poor Richard Improved 1755
Poor Richard Improved 1756
Poor Richard Improved 1757
Poor Richard Improved 1758
Poor Richard's Almanack
1733
Courteous Reader,
I might in this place at tempt to gain thy Favour, by declaring that I write Almanacks with no other View than that of the publick Good; but in this I should not be sincere; and Men are now a-days too wise to be deceiv'd by Pretences how specious soever. The plain Truth of the Matter is, I am excessive poor, and my Wife, good Woman, is, I tell her, excessive proud; she cannot bear, she says, to sit spinning in her
Shift of Tow, while I do nothing but gaze at the Stars; and has threatned more than once to burn all my
Books and Rattling-Traps (as she calls my Instruments) if I do not make some profitable Use of them for the good of my Family. The Printer has offer'd me some considerable share of the Profits, and I have thus begun to comply with my Dame's desire.
Indeed this Motive would have had Force enough to have made me publish an Almanack many Years since, had it not been overpower'd by my Regard for my good Friend and Fellow-Student, Mr. Titan
Leeds, whose Interest I was extreamly unwilling to hurt: But this Obstacle (I am far from speaking it with
Pleasure) is soon to be removed, since inexorable Death, who was never known to respect Merit, has already prepared the mortal Dart, the fatal