 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...library was open 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...acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed, and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...the library 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 manifested its utility, and was imitated by other towns and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations;... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...the library 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 manifested its utility, was imitated in other towns, and in.other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable;... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...the library 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 manifested its utility, was imitated in other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...the library 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...and our people having no public amusements to divert t heir attention from study, became better acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 pages
...library was 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...acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed, and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...library was 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...acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed, and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pages
...library was 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...augmented by donations; reading became fashionable ; and t>ur people, having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 pages
...double the value, if not duly returned. The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated in other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries...having no public amusements to divert their attention, became better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 pages
...the library was opened 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 manifested its utility, was imitated in other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became... | |
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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... 
