 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...  Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography - Seite 83von Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 203 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became...articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs, &c. for fifty years; Mr. Brogden, the scrivener, said to us, « You are young men, but it is scarce... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 Seiten
...libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people having no public amusements to divert their attention from study became...of the same rank generally are in other countries.' (P. 63.) Not a century has elapsed since reading was thus rendered more general, and, as the Doctor... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became...of the same rank generally are in other countries. 5 The objections and reluctances I met with in soliciting the subscriptions, made me soon feel the... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 Seiten
...libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became...of the same rank generally are in other countries. 5 The objections and reluctances I met with in soliciting the subscriptions, made me soon feel the... | |
 | Daniel Appleton White - 1830 - 72 Seiten
...libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable; and our people having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became...acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed bv strangers to be better instructed, and more intelligent than people or the same rank generally are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people having no public amusements to divert t heir attention from study, became better acquainted with...articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs, &c. for fifty years ; Mr. Brogden, the scrivener, said to us, " You are young men, but it is scarce... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became...articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs, &,c. for fifty years, Mr. Brockden, the scrivener, said to us, "You are young men, but it is scarcely... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable ; and t>ur people, having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became...articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs, &,c. for fifty years, Mr. Brockden, the scrivener, said to us, "You are young men, but it is scarcely... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 Seiten
...reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their attention, became better acquainted with books, and in a few...intelligent than people of the same rank generally in other countries." The articles of subscription, dated on the 1st of July, 1731, bound the signers... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became...articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs, &c., for fifty years, Mr. Brockden, the scrivener, said to us, " You are young men, but it is scarcely... | |
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