 The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no...  Annual Report - Side 1504av United States. Office of Education - 1896Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 sider
...opened one day in the week for lending them to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...attention from study, became better acquainted with books, .ind in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 sider
...open one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to |«y double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and ¡ц other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1860 - 720 sider
...was open one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...; and in a few years were observed by strangers to bo better instructed, and more intelligent, than people of the same rank generally are in other countries.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 sider
...opened one day in the week for lending them to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, " Not baving any copy here of what is already written, I know not whether an account is given of the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 sider
...opened one day in the week for lending to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in... | |
 | James Parton - 1871 - 730 sider
...places, to the manifest advantage of the people. "Reading, " says Franklin, "became fashionable; aud our people, having no public amusements to divert...attention from study, became better acquainted with books ; aud, in a few years, were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 sider
...opened one day in the week for lending to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 sider
...opened one day in the week for lending to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 sider
...libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became...better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observ'd by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 sider
...opened one day in the week for lending them to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; some people, having no public amusements to direct their attention from study, became better acquainted... | |
| |
