 The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better...  Annual Report - Sayfa 4Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.) tarafından - 1861Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 sayfa
...amusements to divert their attention from study became better acquainted with books; and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed...of the same rank generally are in other countries.' (P. 63.) Not a century has elapsed since reading was thus rendered more general, and, as the Doctor... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 sayfa
...amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books; and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed,...of the same rank generally are in other countries. When we were about to sign the abovementioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 sayfa
...amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed by strangers, to be better instructed,...of the same rank generally are in other countries. 5 The objections and reluctances I met with in soliciting the subscriptions, made me soon feel the... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 sayfa
...amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed by strangers, to be better instructed,...of the same rank generally are in other countries. 5 The objections and reluctances I met with in soliciting the subscriptions, made me soon feel the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 sayfa
...amusements to divert t heir attention from study, became better acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed,...of the same rank generally are in other countries. When we were about to sign the abovementioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 sayfa
...amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed,...of the same rank generally are in other countries. When we were about to sign the abovementioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 sayfa
...amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed,...of the same rank generally are in other countries. When we were about to sign the abovementioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 sayfa
...amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books; and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed,...of the same rank generally are in other countries. When we were about to sign the abovementioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs,... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 sayfa
...public amusements to divert their attention, became better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed...intelligent than people of the same rank generally in other countries." The articles of subscription, dated on the 1st of July, 1731, bound the signers... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 sayfa
...amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books ; and in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed...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,... | |
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