Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 437
se proverbs, which contain the wisdom of manyages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connecteddiscourse, prefixed to the almanac of 1757, as the harangueof a wise old man to the people attending an auction. Thebringing all these scattered counsels thus into a focusenabled them to make… … 408 Poor Richards Almanac it in French and great numbers bought by the clergy andgentry, to distribute gratis among their poor parishionersand tenants. In Pennsylvania, as it discouraged uselessexpense in foreign superfluities, some thought it had itsshare of influence in producing that growing…
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