 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 páginas
...the " faithful helpmate" over forty years. She died Dec. 19, 1774, while her husband was in London. that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals,...with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the terra our company was to continue. We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to... | |
 | William Isaac Fletcher - 1894 - 230 páginas
...care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated, and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. ... I was not able, with great industry, to find more than fifty persons, mostly young tradesmen, willing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 280 páginas
...care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated, and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public...scrivener, Brockden, and by the help of my friends in the l Mrs. Franklin died December 19, 1774. Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 130 páginas
...care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated, and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public...for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, get them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and by the help of my friends in th« 1 Mrs.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 220 páginas
...care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated, and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, — that 1 Mrs. Franklin died Dec. 19, 1774. Franklin celebrated his wife in a song, of which the following... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 páginas
...care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated, and each took his books home again. " And now I set on foot my first project of a public...the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtain'da charter, the company being increased to 1OO one hundred ; this was the mother of all the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 páginas
...home again. * Mrs. Franklin survived her marriage over forty years. She died December 19, 1774.— ED. And now I set on foot my first project of a public...the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtain 'da charter, the company being increased to one hundred ; this was the mother of all the North... | |
 | 1899 - 1012 páginas
...care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated, and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public...the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtain'da charter, the company being increased to one hundred; this was the mother of all the North... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - 1900 - 576 páginas
...care of them, the collection after about a year was separated ; and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public...fifty years, the term our company was to continue. * * this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous. These libraries... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1900 - 562 páginas
...Junto [the Junto was a club for mutual improvement, founded by Franklin] procured fifty subscribers at forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company waa to continue. We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to one hundred ; this... | |
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And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty... 
