| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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