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A Book for All Readers: Designed as an Aid to the Collection, Use, and ... - Page 327
by Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1900 - 509 pages
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...

Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 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...Brockden, and by the help of my friends in the junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated ; and eat li took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public...for a subscription library; I drew up the proposals, go1 them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and by the help of my friends in the junto,...
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Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 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...Brockden, and by the help of my friends in the junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 666 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...Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty...
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 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...Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty...
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His Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - 1848 - 594 pages
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and ...

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 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...Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty...
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pages
...mutually endeavored to make each other happy. Thus I corrected that great erratum as well as I could. And now I set on foot my first project of a public...Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 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...Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty...
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Select Works, Including His Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - 1856 - 534 pages
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