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... Poor Richard's Almanack5 Preface to Poor Richard , 1733 COURTEOUS READER , I might in this place attempt to gain thy Favour , by declaring that I write Almanacks with no other ... Poor Richard's Almanack . 207 Preface to Poor Richard, 1733.
... Poor Richard's Almanack5 Preface to Poor Richard , 1733 COURTEOUS READER , I might in this place attempt to gain thy Favour , by declaring that I write Almanacks with no other ... Poor Richard's Almanack . 207 Preface to Poor Richard, 1733.
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... Poor Richard says . — How much more than is necessary do we spend in Sleep ! forgetting that The sleeping Fox catches no Poultry , and that there will be sleeping enough in the Grave , as Poor Richard says . If Time be of all Things the ...
... Poor Richard says . — How much more than is necessary do we spend in Sleep ! forgetting that The sleeping Fox catches no Poultry , and that there will be sleeping enough in the Grave , as Poor Richard says . If Time be of all Things the ...
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... Poor Dick savs , For one poor Person , there are an hundred indigent . By these , and other Ex- travagancies , the Genteel are reduced to Poverty , and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised , but who through Industry and ...
... Poor Dick savs , For one poor Person , there are an hundred indigent . By these , and other Ex- travagancies , the Genteel are reduced to Poverty , and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised , but who through Industry and ...
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The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution | 3 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
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