| Delphian Society - 1911 - 578 Seiten
...to be stuck up in houses. Two translations were made of it in France; and great numbers of it were bought by the clergy and gentry, to distribute gratis...that growing plenty of money which was observable several years after its publication. THE WAY TO WEALTH. (From "Poor Richard's Almanac.") COURTEOUS... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1912 - 274 Seiten
...up in houses; two translations were made of it in French, and great numbers bought by the l0clergy and gentry, to distribute gratis among their poor...growing plenty of money which was observable for several 15years after its publication. I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating instruction,... | |
| 1914 - 304 Seiten
...reprinted in Britain on a broadside, to be stuck up in houses ; two translations were made of it in French, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry,...observable for several years after its publication." Franklin's example was followed by other writers,— Noah Webster, the maker of dictionaries, among... | |
| Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 360 Seiten
...houses; two translations were made of it in French, and great numbers bought by the clergy and 135 gentry, to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners...observable for several years after its publication. GLOSSARY. Vending; vehicle; inculcated; frugality; harangue; focus; broadside; gentry; gratis; superfluities.... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 Seiten
...reprinted in Britain on a broadside, to be stuck up in houses, two translations were made of it in French, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry...observable for several years after its publication. THE WAY TO WEALTH AS CLEARLY SHOWN IN THE PREFACE OF AN OLD PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC ENTITLED " POOR RICHARD... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 Seiten
...largely, made money for its author, and was thought to have "its share of influence," says Franklin, " in producing that growing plenty of money which was...observable for several years after its publication." This was due, doubtless, to the proverbs or maxims scattered through the book, being " chiefly such... | |
| Vermont. State Board of Education, Clyde M. Hill, Clyde Milton Hill, John M. Avery - 1918 - 116 Seiten
...reprinted in Britain on a broadside to be stuck up in houses, two translations were made of it into French. In Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expense...observable for several years after its publication." No single piece of American literature, it may be confidently said, has had the vitality of the address... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 Seiten
...reprinted in Britain on a broadside, to be stuck up in houses ; two translations were made of it in French and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry,...that growing plenty of money which was observable for severa' years after its publication." The pages which follow were prefixed to the almanac of 1767.... | |
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 518 Seiten
...reprinted in Britain on a broadside, to be stuck up in houses; two translations were made of it in French and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry,...observable for several years after its publication." THE PREFACE FOR THE YEAR 1757 OURTEOUS Reader: I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 344 Seiten
...Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expense in foreign superfluities, some thought it had its share 114 of influence in producing that growing plenty of money...observable for several years after its publication. I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating instruction, and in that view frequently... | |
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