• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The worth of a penny : or, a caution to keep money. With the causes of the scarcity, and misery of the want thereof, consider'd under the following Heads, viz. the ... Causes why Men are without Money, and are Three ... I. Excess in Diet, Drinking, and Apparel. II. Gaming, and Recreations. III. Idleness and Improvidence, either in themselves, or their Servants. IV. The Character of a dejected Spirit for want of Money. V. The Misery of the Want of Money. VI. It compelleth to offend against Body and Soul. VII. The Vertue of Frugality, and the Definition of it. VIII. The Derivative of the Word Penny, and the Value of is. IX. The many good Uses that a Penny may be put to. X. Cautions to save Money in Diet, Apparel, and Recreations. XI. The English, of all Nations in Lurope, the most prosuse in their Expences. XII. Of good Husbandy in Apparel. XIII. Many excellent Examples of Moderation in it. XIV. Of Recreation, and the Benefits that are received by it. XV. Four excellent Cautions to be observ'd in Play, &c
  • Contributor: Peacham, Henry [Author]
  • imprint: Bury St Edmund's: printed and sold by Tho. Baily and W. Thompson, at the Printing-Office in St. Edmund's Bury, Suffolk, [1725?]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (22,[2]p); 8°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Money
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Anonymous. By Henry Peacham the Younger
    Braces in imprint
    English Short Title Catalog, T122249
    Price from imprint: price Three Pence
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    With a final advertisement leaf