 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Nathan Haskell Dole, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 432 pages
...resist the temptation and ate the whole before we came. POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC. X < M 8 a > o: o a a H by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom...vanity, an eminent author of almanacs annually now for a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 444 pages
...practice of remembering and repeating those sentences, I have sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. by other learned authors. This pleasure I have seldom...vanity, an eminent author of almanacs annually now for a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 pages
...conditions that conduce to despotism ; to liberty. CXXIII.— THE WAY TO WEALTH. 1. COURTEOUS READER : I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you.... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 pages
...years after its publication." Poor IRicbaro's HImanac The Preface for the Year 7757 COURTEOUS READER : I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...vanity, an eminent author of almanacs annually now for a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1903 - 402 pages
...Almanac^ &c., for the year of our Lord 1758. RICHARD SAUNDERS. Philom. Philadelphia. COURTEOUS READER. HAVE heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure...I may say it without vanity, an eminent author of 322 WE ARE TAXED BY IDLENESS AND FOLLY, [ Almanacs annually, now a full quarter of a century, my brother... | |
 | American literature - 1904 - 496 pages
...pages which follow are the connected discourse prefixed to the almanac of 1V57.] COURTEOUS HEADER : — I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...vanity, an eminent author of Almanacs annually, now for a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...the president, Lord Macclesfield, wherein I was highly honored. THE WAY TO WEALTH1 Courteous Reader, 0Xe 5 r u V "D 1926 Doubleday, Page & com e 5"! Shafer Robert" Robert Shafer( 'Franklin says in the Autobiography: "In 1732 I first published my Almanac, under the name of Richard... | |
 | William Gardiner - Conduct of life - 1927 - 328 pages
...Greenleaf Whittier. 239 From "POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC" PREFIXED TO THE ALMANAC OF 1757 COURTEOUS READER:— I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...vanity, an eminent author of Almanacs annually, now for a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have... | |
 | Michael Warner - Antiques & Collectibles - 2009 - 228 pages
...But the beginning of the essay offers one of Franklin's usual jokes about Richard's fictitiousness. I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great...Authors. This Pleasure I have seldom enjoyed; for tho' I have been, if I may say it without Vanity, an eminent Author of Almanacks annually now a full... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 1993 - 296 pages
...purchase fine clothes, Franklin's Poor Richard is "wonderfully delighted" with the compliment, for "nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure as to find his Works respectfully quoted by others." The fact that Franklin is "conscious that not a tenth Part of the Wisdom was my own which... | |
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I have been, if I may say it without vanity an eminent author of almanacks annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their applauses, and no other author has... 
