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A nineteenth-century print based on Poor Richard's Almanack, showing the author surrounded by twenty-four illustrations of many of his best-known sayings. On December 28, 1732, Benjamin Franklin announced in The Pennsylvania Gazette that he had just printed and published the first edition of The Poor Richard, by Richard Saunders, Philomath. [4]
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Richard Saunders was an English physician and astrologer, born in 1613, and ...
An almanac maker going under the pseudonym of Poor Richard, Knight of the Burnt Island began to publish Poor Robin's Almanack one of the first comic almanacs that parodied these horoscopes in its 1664 issue, saying "This month we may expect to hear of the Death of some Man, Woman, or Child, either in Kent or Christendom." Other noteworthy comic ...
The Way to Wealth or Father Abraham's Sermon is an essay written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758. It is a collection of adages and advice presented in Poor Richard's Almanack during its first 25 years of publication, organized into a speech given by "Father Abraham" to a group of people.
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The "Poor Richard" Franklin refers to, Richard Saunders, was an actual person. Richard Saunders, 1613-1692, was an English astrologer-physician. In 1677 he published The Astrological Judgement and Practice of Physick, which at the time, and for more than a century thereafter, was the standard book on the subject. Franklin had this book in his ...
James' brother, Benjamin Franklin, published his annual Poor Richard's Almanack in Philadelphia from 1732 to 1758. [27] Samuel Stearns of Paxton, Massachusetts, issued the North-American Almanack, published annually from 1771 to 1784, as well as the first American nautical almanac, The Navigator's Kalendar, or Nautical Almanack, for 1783. [28]
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Richard Saunders may refer to: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790 ...