Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 274
ntage gained bybeing able to write. . . . In 1732 I first published my Almanac, under thename of Richard Saunders ; it was continued by meabout twenty-five years, and commonly called PoorRichards Almanac. I endeavored to make it bothentertaining and useful, and it accordingly came to bein such… … Franklin at Work in Keimers Office Benjamin Franklin 243 proper vehicle for conveying instruction among thecommon people, who bought scarcely any other books.I therefore filled all the little spaces, that occurredbetween the remarkable days in the Calendar, withproverbial sentences, chiefly such as…
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