 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...certain sum down for the first purchase of the books, and an annual contribution for increasing them. So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia,...forty shillings each, and ten shillings per annum ; xvith this little fund we began. The books were imported; the library was open one day in the week... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...certain sum down for the -first purchase of the books, and an annual contribution for increasing them. So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia, and the majority of us so pour, that I was not able with great industry to find more than fifty persons (mostly young tradesmen)'willing... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...conveyancer, Mr. Charles Brogden, to put the whole in form of articles of agreement to be subscribed. So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia,...majority of us so poor, that I was not able, with industry, to find more than fifty persons, (mostly young tradesmen,) willing to pay down for the purpose,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...conveyancer, Mr. Charles Brogden, to put the whole in form of articles of agreement to be subscribed. So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia,...majority of us so poor, that I was not able, with Q2 great industry, to find more than fifty persons, (mostly young tradesmen,) willing to pay down for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pages
...certain sum down for the first purchase of the books, and an annual contribution for increasing them. So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia,...pay down for this purpose forty shillings each, and tea shillings per annum. With this little fund we began. The books were imported; the library was opened... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...certain sum down for the first purchase of the books, and an annual contribution for increasing them. So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia,...able, with great industry, to find more than fifty person.8, mostly young tradesmen, willing to pay down for this purpose forty shillings each, and ten... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1860 - 720 pages
...common, by commencing о public subscription library. I drew a sketch of the plan and nües that would bo necessary. So few were the readers at that time in...able, with great industry, to find more than fifty person» (mostly young tradesmen) willing to pay down for this purpose forty shillings euch, and ten... | |
 | Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.) - 1861 - 682 pages
...club for assessments and the purchase of books and obtained a more suitable room. Franklin says he " was not able with great industry to find more than...persons, mostly young tradesmen, willing to pay down forty shillings each, and ten shillings per annum for this purpose." The institution " soon manifested... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 pages
...a certain sum down for the first purchase of books, and an annual contribution for increasing them. So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia,...forty shillings each, and ten shillings per annum. On this little fund we began. The books were imported ; the library was opened one day in the week... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 pages
...a certain sum down for the first purchase of books, and an annual contribution for increasing them. So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia,...to pay down for this purpose forty shillings each, ajid ten shillings per annum. On this little fund we began. The books were imported ; the library was... | |
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So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia and the majority of us so poor that I was not able with great industry to find more than fifty persons, mostly young tradesmen, willing to pay down for this purpose forty shillings each and ten shillings... 
