 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1148 pages
...due Care of them, the Collection after about a Year was separated, & each took his Books home again. of the Frying Pan, it smelt admirably well. I balanc'd...Principle & Inclination: till I recollected, that procur'd Fifty Subscribers of 40/ each to begin with & 10/ a Year for 50 Years, the Term our Company... | |
 | David C. Hammack - Business & Economics - 1998 - 508 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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...due Care of them, the Collection after about a Year was separated, & 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 4O/ each to begin with & io/ a Year for 50 Years, the Term our Company... | |
 | American literature - 1883 - 1002 pages
...for some time contented us. " " * Yet some inconveniences occurring, each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. The institution soon manifested its ability, was imitated in other towns and in other proTinces. *... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 680 pages
...probably soon follow them ; and, therefore, I was forbidden the house, and the daughter shut up. . . . And now I set on foot my first project of a public...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 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...fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterward obtained a charter, the company being increased to one hundred. This was the mother of all... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
...and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature—that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals,...fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterward obtained a charter, the company being increased to one hundred. This was the mother of all... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 330 pages
...Collection, I propos'd to render the Benefit from Books more common by commencing a Public Library.1 ... I set on foot my first Project of a public Nature,...Brockden, and by the help of my Friends in the Junto, procur'd Fifty Subscribers of 40 shillings each to begin with & 10 shillings a Year for 50 Years, the... | |
 | Rory Litwin - History - 2014 - 265 pages
...and for some time contented us.***Yet some inconveniences occurring, each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. The institution soon manifested its ability, was imitated in other towns and in other provinces. ***Reading... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 258 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...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... | |
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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... 
