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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]
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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Poor Richard's Almanack; Poor Robin; Q. Qatari Almanac; R. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Ankh-Morpork Almanack and Book of Days, from various Discworld novels (a version has been published as The Discworld Almanak) Gray's Sports Almanac, featured in Back to the Future Part II; Klepp's Almenak, a travel guide to the islands of the Abarat from The Books of Abarat novels by Clive Barker
He became wealthy publishing this and Poor Richard's Almanack, which he wrote under the pseudonym "Richard Saunders". [4] After 1767, he was associated with the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the policies of the British Parliament and the Crown. [5]
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 ...
On December 28, 1732, through the Gazette Franklin announced that he had just printed and published the first edition of The Poor Richard, (better known as Poor Richard's Alamanack) by Richard Saunders, Philomath. The almanack proved to be a huge success with a printing run that lasted more than twenty-five years. [53]
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 ...