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 | 2019-07-04T09:55:32Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:55:32Z |
| dc.date.created | 1987 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-06-08 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1579 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1579 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1579 |
| dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 227 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| 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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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 238228 |
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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 . . .
