| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to...and continually goes on increasing: these libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 Seiten
...with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to one hundred; this was the mother of all tho North American subscription libraries, now so numerous. It is become a great thins itself, and... | |
| 1818 - 486 Seiten
...afterwards arose a subscription library, for which a charter was finally obtained ; and this proved " the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous." " It is become," adds he, " a great thing itself, and continually goes on encreasing : these libraries have improved... | |
| 1818 - 590 Seiten
...afterwards arose a subscription library, for which a charter was finally obtained ; and this proved " the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous." " It is become," adds he, " a great thing itself, and continually goes on encreasing : these libraries have improved... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to...and continually goes on increasing: these libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 666 Seiten
...with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to...and continually goes on increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to...and continually goes on increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent... | |
| Sherman Day - 1843 - 754 Seiten
...by starting a public subscription, and raising a company of fifty members. " This," says Franklin, " was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous." The proprietaries, particularly Thomas Penn, encouraged the plan, by making several valuable donations,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to...and continually goes on increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent... | |
| Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 Seiten
...mother," says Franklin, " of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous. It has become a great thing itself, and continually goes on increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent... | |
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