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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 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 ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Available online
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 6327.
- Standardized Title:
- Way to wealth
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Success.
- Maxims.
- Physical Description:
- 16 pages
- Place of Publication:
- New-Haven [Conn.] : [publisher not identified], 1804.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- "Father Abraham's speech" signed: Richard Saunders.
- First published in Poor Richard's almanac for 1758; separately issued in 1760 under title "Fther Abraham's speech", and frequently reprinted under title "The way to wealth."
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 6327).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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