 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...books were imported ; the library was open one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if...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 books were imported; the library was open one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if...institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated in other towns, and in.other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable;... | |
 | Daniel Appleton White - 1830 - 72 pages
...the library was open one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory n otes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The...acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed bv strangers to be better instructed, and more intelligent than people or the same rank generally are... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...books were imported ; the library was open one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if...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
...book» were imported ; the library was open one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if...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, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pages
...were imported ; the library was opened one day in the week for lending them to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if...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
...books were imported; the library was opened one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value, if...institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated in other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 pages
...books were imported, the 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." " This was the mother," says Franklin, " of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pages
...books were imported; the library was opened one day in the week for lending them to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if...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... | |
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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... 
