Poor Richard's Almanac for 1850-52J. Doggett jr., 1849 |
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11 morn 15 Dog Star 15 Venus sets 20 morn 31 DAYS 48 morn 55 morn ARKANSAS BALTIMORE bred CALENDAR FOR BOSTON CALENDAR FOR CHARLESTON CALENDAR FOR WASHINGTON CALIFOR CAROLINA Ch'ton CHARLES'N. N. ORLEANS Clock before Sun CONN Day of Month Day of Week DELPHIA Dog Star rises Dog Star sets Eclipse father FLORIDA fool GEORGIA ILLI'S INDIANA invented IOWA JERSEY Jupiter rises Jupiter sets KENTUCKY learned living longest day Mars sets MAXIMS MEXICO MICHIGAN Moon H. W. Rises Moon Rises MOON'S PHASES morn 11 morn morn N. Y. Sun Rises New-York OHIO OLD SOUTH CHURCH PENN PHILA Pleiades set POETRY FOR JULY POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC Quarter New Moon RICHARD Sarsaparilla Saturn sets SOURI Sun before Clock Sun Moon H. W. Sun Sets Sun Sun Moon TENNES TEXAS TIMORE Titan Leeds Uncle Benjamin VIRGINIA wife WISCONSIN wise YORK
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Trang iv - Prance, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry, to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and tenants.
Trang 56 - My proposal was to build a wharf there, fit for us to stand upon, and I showed my comrades a large heap of stones, which were intended for a new house near the marsh, and which would very well suit our purpose. Accordingly, in the evening, when the workmen were gone...
Trang 55 - I was generally a leader among the boys, and sometimes led them into scrapes, of which I will mention one instance, as it shows an early projecting public spirit, though not then justly conducted.
Trang 53 - ... then under the tapes. One of the children stood at the door to give notice if he saw the apparitor coming, who was an officer of the spiritual court. In that case the stool was turned down again upon its feet, when the Bible remained concealed under it as before.
Trang 55 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read), and the opinion of all his friends, that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to...
Trang 60 - England with a press and letters to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended effect of such an inclination, my father was impatient to have me bound to my brother. I stood out some time, but at last was persuaded, and signed the indentures when I was yet but twelve years old. I was to serve as an apprentice till I was twenty-one years of age, only I was to be allowed journeyman's wages during the...
Trang 57 - Maintained a large family comfortably ; And brought up thirteen children and seven grandchildren Reputably. From this instance, reader, Be encouraged to diligence in thy calling, And distrust not Providence. He was a pious and prudent man, She a discreet and virtuous woman.
Trang 60 - I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one; but as prose writing has been of great use to me in the course of my life, and was a principal means of my advancement, I shall tell you how, in such a situation, 1 acquired what little ability I have in that way.
Trang 59 - I continued thus employed in my father's business for two years, that is, till I was twelve years old; and my brother John, who was bred to that business, having left my father, married, and set up for himself at Rhode Island, there was all appearance that I was destined to supply his place, and become a tallow-chandler.
Trang 60 - An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my...