 | Benjamin Franklin - 1884 - 598 pages
...associate in the design a number of active friends, of whom the Junto furnished a. good part ; the next was to write and publish a pamphlet, entitled Proposals relating to the Education of Tot1th in Pennsylvania. This I distributed among the principal inhabitants gratis ; and as soon as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 pages
...in thie~<Iesign a number of active friends, of whom the jTjmkq furnished a good part; the next was to write and publish a pamphlet, entitled Proposals relating to the Education ofTouth in Pennsylvania. This I distributed among the principal inhabitants gratis; and as soon as... | |
 | 1922 - 1604 pages
...University of Pennsylvania traces its beginning to the year 1740. Benjamin Franklin, in 1749, published a pamphlet, entitled Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, which led to the formation of a board of twenty-four trustees, nineteen uf whom, on the 13th of November,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1889 - 510 pages
...much for the Gazette upon doing more for the education of the young. At last, he prepared and printed a pamphlet, entitled " Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania." It was published at his own expense and gratuitously distributed, after it had been read in the Junto,... | |
 | 1891 - 568 pages
...academy was due to the publication of this paper and his own subsequent personal efforts. He says, " This I distributed among the principal inhabitants...gratis ; and as soon as I could suppose their minds prepared by the perusal of it I set on foot a subscription for opening and supporting an academy —... | |
 | 1891 - 562 pages
...academy was due to the publication of this paper and his own subsequent personal efforts. He says, " This I distributed among the principal inhabitants...gratis ; and as soon as I could suppose their minds prepared by the perusal of it I set on foot a subscription for opening and supporting an academy —... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1893 - 540 pages
...Academy was due to the publication of this paper and his own subsequent personal efforts. He says : This I distributed among the principal inhabitants gratis, and as soon as I could eupposo their minds prepared by the perusal of it I set on foot a subscription for opening and support... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1894 - 672 pages
...an academy. His first step was to secure the cooperation of a number of active friends; the next was to write and publish a pamphlet entitled Proposals...Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania. In this he proposed that some persons of leisure and public spirit be incorporated with power to erect... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1894 - 676 pages
...His first step was to secure the cooperation of a number of active friends; the next was to write aud publish a pamphlet entitled Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania. In this he proposed that some persons of leisure and public spirit be incorporated with power to erect... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 280 pages
...associate in the design a number of active friends, of whom the Junto furnished a good part ; the next was to write and publish a pamphlet, entitled Proposals...their minds a little prepared by the perusal of it, T set on foot a subscription for opening and supporting an academy ; it was to be paid in quotas yearly... | |
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I turn'd my thoughts again to the affair of establishing an academy. The first step I took was to associate in the design a number of active friends, of whom the Junto furnished a good part; the next was to write and publish a pamphlet, entitled Proposals... 
