 | Lucy Ella Fay, Anne Thaxter Eaton - Books and reading - 1915 - 462 pages
...when Benjamin Franklin in 1731 began in Philadelphia the first subscription library in this country. " And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. ... I was not able with great industry, to find more than fifty persons, mostly young tradesmen, willing... | |
 | Horace Mather Lippincott - Buildings - 1917 - 454 pages
...took his books home. Nothing daunted, however, Franklin went on and proposed that the Junto procure fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, to start a subscription library. As the subscriptions came slowly twenty-five were held to be enough... | |
 | James Lynn Barnard, Jessie Campbell Evans - Citizenship - 1918 - 388 pages
...we let him tell us the story so far as possible in his own delightful fashion. "And now [about 1730] I set on foot my first project of a public nature,...library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty... | |
 | Gertrude Gilbert Drury - Libraries - 1924 - 528 pages
...library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and by i6 the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty...the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtain'da charter, the company being increased to one hundred : this was the mother of all the North... | |
 | Mrs. Gertrude Martha (Gilbert) Drury - Libraries - 1924 - 528 pages
...care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public...into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and by >roved the general conversation of the Ameri nrnon tradesmen and farmers as intelligent a n from other... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 692 pages
...probably soon follow them ; and, therefore, I was forbidden the house, and the daughter shut up. . . . by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help...the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtain'da charter, the company being in'TiMsol to one hundred : this was the mother of all the North... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - Literary Criticism - 1898 - 684 pages
...probably soon follow them ; and, therefore, I was forbidden the house, and the daughter shut up. . . . by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help...the term our company was to continue. We afterwards obtain'da charter, the company being increased to one hundred : this was the mother of all the North... | |
 | American essays - 1868 - 798 pages
...care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated, and each took his books home again. " And now I set on foot my first project of a public...library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form l;y our great scrivener, ISrockden, and, by the help of my friends in the j'naij, procured fifty subscribers... | |
 | 382 pages
...common library. The inconvenience of the informal arrangement was such that, as Franklin continued, "now I set on foot my first Project of a public Nature, that for a Subscription Library." His friend Charles Brockden, a scrivener, indited the Articles of the Library Company, its founding... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 300 pages
...Care of them, the Collection after about a Year was separated, and each took his Books home again. And now I set on foot my first Project of a public...Brockden, and by the help of my Friends in the Junto, procur'd Fifty Subscribers of 405. each to begin with and iO5. a Year for 50 Years, the Term our Company... | |
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And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty... 
