 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...in other provinces, The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people having no public amusements to divert their...binding on us, our heirs, &c. for fifty years ; Mr. Brogden, the scrivener, said to us, "•••jfou are young men, but it is scarce probable that any... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people having no public amusements to divert their...of the same rank generally are in other countries.' (P. 63.) Not a century has elapsed since reading was thus rendered more general, and, as the Doctor... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...in.other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people having no public amusements to divert their...of the same rank generally are in other countries. 5 The objections and reluctances I met with in soliciting the subscriptions, made me soon feel the... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people having no public amusements to divert their...of the same rank generally are in other countries. 5 The objections and reluctances I met with in soliciting the subscriptions, made me soon feel the... | |
 | Daniel Appleton White - Lyceums - 1830 - 72 pages
...in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable; and our people having no public amusements to divert their...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people having no public amusements to divert t heir attention from study, became better acquainted with...binding on us, our heirs, &c. for fifty years ; Mr. Brogden, the scrivener, said to us, " You are young men, but it is scarce probable that any of you... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their...articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs, £.c. for fifty years, Mr. Brockden, the scrivener, said to us, "You are young men, but it is scarcely... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their attention, became better acquainted with books, and in a few...intelligent than people of the same rank generally in other countries." The articles of subscription, dated on the 1st of July, 1731, bound the signers... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their...other countries. * When we were about to sign the above mentioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs, &c., for fifty years, Mr. Brockden,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Printers - 1856 - 654 pages
...in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their...few years were observed by strangers to be better in1G5578 structed, and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are in other countries.... | |
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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 public amusements to divert their attention from study,... 
