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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... "
The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography - Page 178
by Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 488 pages
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Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 93, no. 2)

222 pages
..."clubbing our books to a common library" he thought of the project for a library on a larger scale : 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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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, and Other Papers

Benjamin Franklin - 189? - 332 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...
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Report, Volume 16

New York (State). Dept. of Civil Service - 1899 - 926 pages
...given to the examiners. 2 Write an abstract of the following: • From Franklin's Autobiography • And now I set on foot my first project of a public...proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockdcn, and by the help of my friends in the Junta, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings...
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British Almanac and Companion

Almanacs, English - 1878 - 422 pages
...due care of them, the collection, after a year, was separated, 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 a sketch plan and rules that would be necessary, and got a skilful conveyancer, Mr. Charles Brocksley,...
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Franklin Bi-centennial Number, January 20, 1923: The American ..., Volume 76

American Printer & Lithographer - Printing - 1923 - 300 pages
...liked and agreed to, and we filled one end of the room with such books as we could best spare. . . And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. . . This was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous. It is become...
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