Father Abraham's speech to a great number of people, at a vendue of merchant-goods / introduced to the public by Poor Richard, (a famous Pennsylvania conjurer and almanack-maker) in answer to the following questions, Pray Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we be ever able to pay them? What would you advise us to?

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41123.

Standardized Title:

Way to wealth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maxims.

Wealth.

Success.

Genre:

Poems -- 1760.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 pages)

Place of Publication:

New-London [Conn.]: : Printed and sold by T. Green., [1760?]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

A collection of the sayings of Poor Richard, presented in the form of a speech, and variously known as Father Abraham's speech, The way to wealth, and La science du Bonhomme Richard. First published as the introduction to Poor Richard's almanac for 1758.

Signed on pages 20: Richard Saunders.

Date of publication supplied by Johnson.

"The two sinners, the Pope, and the Devil"--p. 21-23, in verse; and "An infallible cure for love"--p. 24.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 41123).

Cited in:

Bristol B2128

Shipton and Mooney 41123

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut (supplement), 2158

Johnson, H.A. New London, 718

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