 | William S. Walsh - Curiosities and wonders - 1913 - 1028 pages
...became fashionable, and our people, having no amusements to divert their attention from study, Ix-came better acquainted with books, and in a few years were...and more intelligent than people of the same rank in other countries. The books were at first kept in the house of Robert Grace, whom Franklin characterizes... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosities and wonders - 1913 - 990 pages
...imitated in other towns and in other provinces. . . Reading became fashionable, and our people, having no amusements to divert their attention from study, became...and in a few years were observed by strangers to be Getter instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank in other countries. The books were... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1913 - 554 pages
...other towns, and in other provinces . . . reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became...better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observ'd by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally... | |
 | Charles Penrose Keith - Pennsylvania - 1917 - 538 pages
...says Franklin, who adds that said class of Philadelphians, from this impetus to mental improvement, "in a few years were observed by strangers to be better...intelligent than people of the same rank generally in other countries." Additional names were enrolled in the course of a few years, and a charter was... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 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, aad in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 274 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....better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observ'd by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1927 - 840 pages
...hitherto closed to all save the rich. "The institution," as he said, "soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns and in other provinces....became fashionable; and our people, having no public amusement to divert their attention from study became better acquainted with books; and in a few years... | |
 | United States. Office of Education, Helen Elizabeth Wessells - Libararies - 1961 - 48 pages
...soon manifested its utility . . . reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick [sic] amusements to divert their attention from study, became...better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observ'd by Today, there are many types of libraries. There are libraries for elementary schools and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...Institution soon manifested its Utility, was imitated by other Towns and in other Provinces, the Librarys were augmented by Donations, Reading became fashionable, and our People having no publick Amusements to divert their Attention from Study became better acquainted with Books, and in... | |
 | American literature - 1883 - 1002 pages
...imitated in other towns and in other proTinces. * * * Reading became fashionable, and our people having no amusements to divert their attention from study, became...and more intelligent than people of the same rank in other countries." of foreign extraction, became himself a director of the Library, and afterward... | |
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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... 
