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Poor Richard's almanac, 1733-1758

 
dc.contributor Library, of America
dc.contributor.author Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
dc.coverage.placeName New York
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-27
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-19T14:49:32Z
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dc.date.created 1987
dc.date.issued 1993-06-08
dc.identifier ota:1579
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1579
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dc.language English
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.rights.label PUB
dc.subject.lcsh Almanacs -- United States -- 18th century
dc.title Poor Richard's almanac, 1733-1758
dc.type Text
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identifier.ee Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/frankbenja001626
identifier.ee Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/frankbenja001626
identifier.lccn Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043402
identifier.lccn Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043402
otaterms.date.range 1900-1999

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<Author>Franklin, Benjamin</Author>
<Title>Poor Richard's Almanac, 1733-1758</Title>
<Edition>[Selections. 1987]  Writings. Library of America.  J.A. Leo Lemay, ed.  New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1987</Edition>
<Date>1733-1758</Date>
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<milestone n=1185><p><i>Poor Richard, 1733</i>  
<p><i>Courteous Reader</i>, 
<p>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 m . . .
										

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