Sentence examples for founded a library from inspiring English sources

Thomas Prince, stirred by the same spirit, founded a library, too.

Thus — the recent name change notwithstanding — he founded a library, not a museum.

Mr Bush has published a couple of books, founded a library in Texas, practised bipartisan matiness with Bill Clinton and keeps largely stumm about his record.

Collectors of private libraries have sometimes benefited posterity by leaving their collections to public institutions or founding a library.

At Avignon he founded a papal library and at Cahors, a university.

Joseph Mayer founded a public library and a museum in Liverpool and believed, Yallop says, "that his memorial would be secure".

One was Hōjō Sanetoki, who collected Japanese and Chinese books and founded a famous library, the Kanazawa Bunko, in the Shōmyō Temple (at what is now Yokohama).

Lansdowne founded an imperial library and record office, abolished the presidential army system, closed Indian mints to the free coinage of silver, reorganized the police, reconstituted legislative councils, gave council members rights of financial discussion and interpolation, and extended railway and irrigation works.

In addition to creating the space for people to enjoy reading, Ellen is also teaching library science workshops and founded a literacy committee at the school.

Supporting all kinds of art, he founded a considerable library the famous Corvina.

The Readers Digest version of the tale begins at the end of the century before last, when Collis Potter Huntington, a railroad magnate, founded the library in what was then a rural section of the Bronx.