 | Daniel Appleton White - Lyceums - 1830 - 72 pages
...promissory n otes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces....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
...promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces....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... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces....augmented by donations; reading became fashionable ; and t>ur people, having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Printers - 1856 - 654 pages
...promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces....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.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 pages
...promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces....attention from study, became better acquainted with books, .ind in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1859 - 680 pages
...not duly returned. The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and ¡ц other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations...were observed by strangers to be better instructed, ani more intelligent than people of the some not generally are in other countries. • When we were... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1860 - 720 pages
...promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces....; and in a few years were observed by strangers to bo better instructed, and more intelligent, than people of the same rank generally are in other countries.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 pages
...therefore begin here with an account of it, which may be itruok «ut if found to have been already given " and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented...intelligent than people of the same rank generally are m other countries. When we were about to sign the above-mentioned articles, which were to be binding... | |
 | Universalism - 1867 - 978 pages
...Independence. ' Reading became fashionable,' said Franklin, * and our people having no public amusements i« divert . their attention from study, became better...intelligent than people of the same rank generally, or in other countries.' What the Philadelphia Library did for Franklin himself, the libraries, doubtless,... | |
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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... 
