. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . pring Tides, PlaWs Morion* &.mutual Afpects, Sun and Moons Rifm?and Set-toting, Length of Days, Time of High Water,. Fairs, Courts, and obfervab!-. ;sFittedtothe Larirude oi Vorxs Degrees,and a Meridian of Five Hours Weft from /ontim,£ put may without fenfihle Error, ferveah the id-- jacent Places, even from Ne<wfomibmd to ;, Carolina. , 16- PHILADELPHIA: ^Printed and fold by B. , at thfrNew Printing Office near the Market. The Third Jmpicfiloa,1758. There were hund
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . pring Tides, PlaWs Morion* &.mutual Afpects, Sun and Moons Rifm?and Set-toting, Length of Days, Time of High Water,. Fairs, Courts, and obfervab!-. ;sFittedtothe Larirude oi Vorxs Degrees,and a Meridian of Five Hours Weft from /ontim,£ put may without fenfihle Error, ferveah the id-- jacent Places, even from Ne<wfomibmd to ;, Carolina. , 16- PHILADELPHIA: ^Printed and fold by B. , at thfrNew Printing Office near the Market. The Third Jmpicfiloa,1758. There were hundreds andhundreds of homes in the Amer-ican colonies in which the fam-ilies knew and possessed only two books,—the Bible for Sunday reading,and Poor Richards Almanack for the other six days of the week. Asyou can see from Master Bert here, people are quoting from it yet, thoughit stopped publication almost a hundred and fifty years ago. POOR RICHARDS ALMANACK. Title-page of the only existing copy of the first number, now in if possession of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, PAINTED BI CHABLES WILL80N PEALK.
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