Franklin's Way To Wealth; Or, "Poor Richard Improved"
Benjamin Franklin
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FRANKLIN'S WAY TO WEALTH;
FRANKLIN'S WAY TO WEALTH;
A GRAMMATICAL CATECHISM for the use of Schools, upon the plan of Lindley Murray. "This manual is particularly adapted to the purposes of examination and catechetical instruction, and will be found of the utmost service in weekly grammatical enquiries." THE PAGAN MYTHOLOGY of ancient Greece and Rome versified, accompanied with Philosophical Elucidations of the probable latent meaning of some of the Fables of the Ancients, on a theory entirely new. By R. ATKINS. Illustrated by twenty-two Cuts on W
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INTRODUCTION.
INTRODUCTION.
Dr. Franklin, wishing to collect into one piece all the sayings upon the following subjects, which he had dropped in the course of publishing the Almanacks called "Poor Richard," introduces Father Abraham for this purpose. Hence it is, that Poor Richard is so often quoted, and that, in the present title, he is said to be improved. Notwithstanding the stroke of humour in the concluding paragraph of this address, Poor Richard (Saunders) and Father Abraham have proved, in America, that they are no
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