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 - Page 1504by United States. Office of Education - 1896Full view - About this book
| Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 pages
...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 - Statesmen - 1859 - 680 pages
...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 - Education - 1860 - 720 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 426 pages
...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 - Anecdotes - 1871 - 730 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...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... | |
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