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Page 51
... means . The diffi- culty with large and well - established libraries is more to get the books read than to acquire them ; and we deem that this effort to satisfy positive wants is a great gain to that end . A reader may want a book on a ...
... means . The diffi- culty with large and well - established libraries is more to get the books read than to acquire them ; and we deem that this effort to satisfy positive wants is a great gain to that end . A reader may want a book on a ...
Page 122
... means to satisfy the demands in this way . Some of them occasionally purchase two or three copies , as at Fitchburg and New Bedford . Lynn goes sometimes to the extent of seven or eight . The Boston Mercantile Library once in a while ...
... means to satisfy the demands in this way . Some of them occasionally purchase two or three copies , as at Fitchburg and New Bedford . Lynn goes sometimes to the extent of seven or eight . The Boston Mercantile Library once in a while ...
Page 8
... means of riding round the suburbs of this city , the poor , or common class , who should have access to this park at a very small charge for fare . Boston has been the leader in all the great educational , and benevolent , and ...
... means of riding round the suburbs of this city , the poor , or common class , who should have access to this park at a very small charge for fare . Boston has been the leader in all the great educational , and benevolent , and ...
Page 16
... mean when we , the petitioners whose names are signed to that paper , ask that this city government may be called upon to purchase and lay out a public park for the people . Boston in 1820 contained about 40,000 inhabitants ; Boston in ...
... mean when we , the petitioners whose names are signed to that paper , ask that this city government may be called upon to purchase and lay out a public park for the people . Boston in 1820 contained about 40,000 inhabitants ; Boston in ...
Page 18
... means of honest , jovial recreation ? I say we of New England err in that particular , and I would to God that I to - day could transport the 1,200,000 citizens of this State , and cast them into the great West , from which they would ...
... means of honest , jovial recreation ? I say we of New England err in that particular , and I would to God that I to - day could transport the 1,200,000 citizens of this State , and cast them into the great West , from which they would ...
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100 A parcel 25 feet 50 feet avenue Back Bay Beacon street bounded as follows bridge building Castle street cent channel Charles River City of Boston committee commonwealth containing eight hundred containing nine hundred containing one thousand containing seven hundred containing six hundred described as taken dollars Dover street East Boston eastwardly Edward Tuckerman Eliot street Emerald street filling flats foot formerly belonging formerly of George formerly of Henry formerly of James formerly of John formerly of Mary formerly of William heirs of Edward Indiana place land belonging legislature less Lucas street measuring twenty feet Middlesex street Northeast northeastwardly by land Northwest parcel of land park Sarah SHATTUCK side South Boston Southeast southwest square feet Suffolk street tidal basins Tremont street trustees twenty and feet wardly by land Washington street West Boston bridge westwardly by land wharf