 | Robert Sears - 1876 - 664 Seiten
...other libraries j with it, under an act conferring upon it its present name. " This," says Franklin, "was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so common." The American Philosophical Society, opposite the Philadelphia Library, is another of the principal... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 430 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... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 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... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1883 - 492 Seiten
...shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtained a charier, the company being increased to one hundred; this was...and continually goes on increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott - 1884 - 1012 Seiten
...with, and ten shillings a year, for tiliy years, the term our company was to continue. We afterward obtained a charter, the company being increased to...American subscription libraries, now so numerous." The instrument of association was dated July 1, 1731, and the directors and treasurer therein appointed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 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...It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing. These libraries have improved the ( general conversation of the Americans, made the com-... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 Seiten
...with, and ten shillings3 a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to...It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 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...It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common... | |
 | Barre (Mass.). Library Association - 1888 - 66 Seiten
...with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, — the term the company was to continue. We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to...all the North American subscription libraries, now become so numerous. It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing. These libraries... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 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...It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common... | |
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We afterwards obtained a charter, the company being increased to one hundred; this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous. It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing. These libraries have improved... 
