| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 páginas
...cultivation, in the United Provinces: ' At the time I established myself in Pennsylvania,' he says, ' there was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the...were indeed stationers, but they sold only paper, &c. almanacks, ballads, and a few common school-books. Those who loved reading were obliged to send... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...thought advisable not to suppress this fuller one. At the time I established myself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the...were indeed stationers, but they sold only paper, &c. almanacks, ballads, and a few common schoolbooks. Those who loved reading were obliged to send... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...struck out if found to have been already given.' At the time I established myself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the colonies to the southward of Boston. In New-York and Philadelphia, the printers were indeed stationers, but they sold only paper, &c. almanacks,... | |
| 1818 - 486 páginas
...learn from the latter portion of the work, that at the time he established himself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the colonies to the southward of Boston. Notwithstanding two competitors in business, and an increasing family, his circumstances improved daily,... | |
| 1818 - 590 páginas
...learn from the latter portion of the work, that at the time he established himself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the colonies to the southward of Boston. Notwithstanding two competitors in business, and an increasing family, his circumstances improved daily,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...Boston. In New York and Philadelphia, the printers were indeed stationers, but they sold only paper, &r. almanacs, ballads, and a few common school-books....Those who loved reading were obliged to send for their • Only a short account of this subject, having been given at the close of the Brst part of the life,... | |
| 1818 - 588 páginas
...are now removed from the state of things which he describes, in respect to literary means in general: 'There was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the colonies to the southward of Boston; those who loved reading, were obliged to send for their books from England,' &c. Aware of the truth... | |
| 1818 - 708 páginas
...portion of the work, that at the time he established himself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good n bookseller's shop in any of the colonies to the southward of Boston. Notwithstanding two competitors in business, and an increasing family, his circumstances improved daily,... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...Philadelphia. Luxury introduced in his family by his wife. 1 At the time I established myself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the colonies to the southward of Boston. In New-York and Philadelphia, the printers were indeed stationers, but they sold only paper, &c. almanacs,... | |
| Daniel Appleton White - 1830 - 72 páginas
...Boston. In New-York and Philadelphia, the printers were indeed stationers, but they told only paper, &c., almanacs, ballads, and a few common school-books....loved reading were obliged to send for their books from England; the members of the" junto had each a * Dr. Franklin's account of the members of this... | |
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