...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the Calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to always act honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, “It is hard for an empty sack to stand...

...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanac of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending...

...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending...

...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a...

...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality,...of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue." Many of the proverbs are still well known. Some of them are as follows : — " God helps them that...

...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a...

...the almanac came to be called Poor Richard's Almanac. "These proverbs," says Franklin, "which contain the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse, prefixed to the almanac of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending...

...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...' it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.' " In the almanac Franklin introduced his proverbs by the phrase Poor Richard says, as if he were quoting...

...several editions were printed, the number greatly increasing. Its proverbial sentences, inculcating industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue, were sown like seed all through the Colonies. The Almanac went year after year into the house of nearly...

...he labours twenty hours out of twenty-four. Instead of using his Poor Richard's example to inculcate 'Industry and Frugality, as the Means of procuring Wealth, and thereby securing Virtue', Deloney relates Casteler's gain to his spiritual and sensual loss. 51 Having thus turned away from...