 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 стор.
...and 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. When we were about to sign the above-mentioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 стор.
...and 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 - 1824 - 308 стор.
...and 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 - 1830 - 336 стор.
...and 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 - 1830 - 72 стор.
...and 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 - 1834 - 682 стор.
...donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people having no public amusements to divert t heir attention from study, became better acquainted with...of the same rank generally are in other countries. When we were about to sign the abovementioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 стор.
...and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public amusements to divert...of the same rank generally are in other countries. When we were about to sign the abovementioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 стор.
...in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable ; and t>ur people, having no public amusements to divert their...of the same rank generally are in other countries. When we were about to sign the abovementioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 стор.
...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... | |
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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... 
