Poor Richards Almanac - Benjamin Franklin
Category: History
Narrator: Robert Bethune
Tags: History
Poor Richards Almanac (UNABRIDGED) by Benjamin Franklin Narrated by Robert Bethune, LENGTH: 9 hrs and 39 mins AUDIBLE RELEASE DATE: 10-10-11 PUBLISHER: Freshwater Seas, Publishers Summary The prefaces, proverbs, and poems of Benjamin Franklin, originally printed in editions of Poor Richards Almanac for 1733 to 1758., As Benjamin Franklin himself put it: Courteous Listener: Besides the astronomical Calculations, and other Things usually containd in Almanacks, which have their daily Use indeed while the Year continues, but then become of no Value, I have constantly interspersd moral Sentences, prudent Maxims, and wise Sayings, many of them containing much good Sense in very few Words, and therefore apt to leave strong and lasting Impressions on the Memory of young Persons, whereby they may receive Benefit as long as they live, when both Almanack and Almanac-maker have been long thrown by and forgotten. If I now and then insert a Joke or two, that seem to have little in them, my Apology i
