 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...  Annual Report - Page 1504by United States. Office of Education - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 pages
...meager savings, open gateways hitherto closed to all save the rich. "The institution," as he said, "soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other...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 - 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... | |
 | Cathy N. Davidson Professor of English Duke University - 1987 - 338 pages
...we began. . . . The library was open one day in the week for lending [books] to subscribers. . . . The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns and in other provinces."60 The demand for reading became more widespread, especially among women of all classes... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 pages
...open one Day in the Week for lending them to the Subscribers, on their Promisory Notes to pay Double the Value if not duly returned. The Institution soon...imitated by other Towns and in other Provinces, the Librarys were augmented by Donations, Reading became fashionable, and our People having no publick... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 pages
...opened one day in the week for lending to the suhscrihers, on their promissory notes to pay douhle the value if not duly returned. The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated hy other towns, and in other provinces. The lihraries were augmented hy donations; reading hecame fashionahle;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 446 pages
...open one Day in the Week for lending them to the Suhserihers, on their Promisory Notes to pay Douhle the Value if not duly returned. The Institution soon manifested its Utility, was imitated hy other Towns and in other Provinces, the Lihrarys were augmeuted hy Donations, Reading hecame fashionahle,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 pages
...opened one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...better instructed and more intelligent than people in the same rank generally are in other countries. When we were about to sign the above-mentioned articles,... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2005 - 918 pages
...1940), p. 22. Cf. chap. 2, n. 6, above. It should be noted, however, that "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... | |
 | Rory Litwin - 2014 - 265 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 more intelligent than people of the same rank in other countries." That the leaven did indeed work as Franklin said we may infer from the fact that... | |
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