 | Frederick Morgan Cruden - 1884 - 32 trang
...as the result of the establishment of the Philadelphia Library Company: " In a few years our people were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank in other countries." One of these strangers corroborates this statement in a volume of letters published... | |
 | 1886 - 746 trang
...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." 1 think you will agree with me that this is a very striking bit of testimony, too much so to permit... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 trang
...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 above-mentioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | 1886 - 740 trang
...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." I think you will agree with me that this is a very striking bit of testimony, too much so to permit... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 trang
...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 above-mentioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 trang
...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 above-mentioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | 1889 - 932 trang
...charge. As a result of tnis library Franklin says that Reading became fashionable . . . our people in a few years were observed by strangers to be better...intelligent than people of the same rank generally in other countries. . . • The institution . . . was imitated by other towns and in other provinces.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1892 - 202 trang
...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 above-mentioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 trang
...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. 7*- -* ^~ When we were about to sign the above-mentioned articles, which were to be binding on us,... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1896 - 1270 trang
...and in other provinces. The libraries wore augmented by donations; reading became fashionable, and our people, having no public amusements to divert...of the same rank generally are in other countries (pp. 98-99). The instrument inaugurating this new library movement was signed July 1, 1731. It gave... | |
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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... 
