 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 sider
...the library was 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...acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 sider
...library was opened one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to y&y double the value if not duly returned. The institution...acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 130 sider
...the library was 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...acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - 1896 - 638 sider
...great thing itself, and continually increasing."* Of its immediate results, Franklin relates that it " soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other...acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1896 - 1270 sider
...library was 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...other towns and in other provinces. The libraries wore augmented by donations; reading became fashionable, and our people, having no public amusements... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 sider
...the library was 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...was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. 79 The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1901 - 362 sider
...the library was 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...acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 sider
...The library was opened one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The...attention from study, became better acquainted with books, aad in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - 1902 - 494 sider
...week for lending to subscribers. . . . reading became fashionable, and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became...acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 496 sider
...the library was 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...reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in... | |
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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... 
