...imitated by other towns and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations, reading became fashionable, and our people, having no public...better instructed and more intelligent than people in the same rank generally are in other countries. When we were about to sign the above-mentioned articles,...

...1940), p. 22. Cf. chap. 2, n. 6, above. It should be noted, however, that "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...

...who loved reading is now a man who establishes a lending library, the use of which makes the public "better instructed and more intelligent than people...of the same rank generally are in other countries" (1380). Franklin himself spent "no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind," now devoting himself...

...who loved reading is now a man who establishes a lending library, the use of which makes the public "better instructed and more intelligent than people...of the same rank generally are in other countries" (1380). Franklin himself spent "no time in taverns, games, orfrolicksofany kind," now devoting himself...

...imitated in other towns and in other provinces. ***Reading became fashionable, and our people having no amusements to divert their attention from study, became...and more intelligent than people of the same rank in other countries." That the leaven did indeed work as Franklin said we may infer from the fact that...

...imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no public...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...

..."Reading became fashionable." Franklin boasted about how well the libraries worked, "Our people. . .were observed by strangers to be better instructed...of the same rank generally are in other countries." The Library Company is still open today. 1ts shelves hold over 500,000 books! I 1n this 19th-century...

...imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no public...of the same rank generally are in Other Countries." From Frangí Autobiography Printed at The New York Public Library for the Franklin Bi-Centennial Number...

...library in every town of consequence in the country, with the result that, as Franklin said, 'reading became fashionable, and our people, having no public...better instructed and more intelligent than people in the same rank generally are in other countries.' William Smith, a tutor and a protege of Franklin's,...

...imitated by other towns and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations, reading became fashionable, and our people, having no public...better instructed and more intelligent than people in the same rank generally are in other countries. When we were about to sign the above-mentioned articles,...