...opened one day in the week for lending them to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...attention from study, became better acquainted with books, .ind in a few years were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people...

...open one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to |«y double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and ¡ц other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable ; and...

...was open one day in the week for lending them to subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...; and in a few years were observed by strangers to bo better instructed, and more intelligent, than people of the same rank generally are in other countries....

...opened one day in the week for lending them to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, " Not baving any copy here of what is already written, I know not whether an account is given of the...

...opened one day in the week for lending to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...reading became fashionable ; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in...

...places, to the manifest advantage of the people. "Reading, " says Franklin, "became fashionable; aud our people, having no public amusements to divert...attention from study, became better acquainted with books ; aud, in a few years, were observed by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than...

...opened one day in the week for lending to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in...

...opened one day in the week for lending to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in...

...libraries were augmented by donations ; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became...better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observ'd by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally...

...opened one day in the week for lending them to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon...augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; some people, having no public amusements to direct their attention from study, became better acquainted...