 | Agnes Repplier - 1898 - 454 pages
...Quaker schools.^ In 1749, having thought the matter over for several years, he made known his views in a pamphlet entitled "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania." Many of these "proposals," it must be admitted, are of a serenely chimerical order, and suggest the... | |
 | 1899 - 1012 pages
...earnest. " The first step was to associate in the design 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 outlined what presumably was his ideal of an education. There was to be a house in a high... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pages
...earnest. " The first step was to associate in the design 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 outlined what presumably was his ideal of an education. There was to be a house in a high... | |
 | Albert Sidney Bolles - 1899 - 568 pages
...of the war between Great Britain and France. Six years afterward it was renewed, and Franklin wrote a pamphlet entitled, " Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania," in which were set forth the objects of the institution. A sum of money was raised by the citizens,... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - 1900 - 396 pages
...way clear to "make public his long-cherished scheme for an educational institution. This \vas done in a pamphlet entitled " Proposals relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania." It was folded in the " Gazette " and sent to the subscribers, soliciting the advice and subscriptions... | |
 | 1904 - 612 pages
.... . . He has written equally for the uninitiated and for the philosopher." In 1 749, Franklin wrote a pamphlet entitled Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania. This led to the formation of an association by some prominent citizens of Philadelphia for the purpose of... | |
 | Frederick Robertson Jones - 1904 - 618 pages
...contains. ... He has written equally for the uninitiated and for the philosopher." In 1749, Franklin wrote a pamphlet entitled Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania. This led to the formation of an association by some prominent citizens of Philadelphia for the purpose of... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - 1904 - 914 pages
...Pennsylvania, University of, the State University, located at Philadelphia. In 1749 Benjamin Franklin published a pamphlet entitled "Proposals relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania ' ; and shortly afterward 24 citizens of Philadelphia associated themselves for the establishing of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 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 Touth in Pennsylvania. This I distributed among the principal inhabitants gratis ; and as soon as I... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1905 - 422 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,... | |
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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... 
