“A Ploughman on His Legs is Higher than a Gentleman on His Knees”: The Representation of The Middling People in Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s almanac
The various aphorisms, maxims and chronicles that compose Poor Richard’s Almanac, written and published from 1733 to 1758 by Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym of Richard Saunders, do not only provide advice and rules of conduct to the reader. A lively description of the “popular wisdom” of the t...
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| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2015-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/359 |