 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1840 - 620 pages
...more than heretofore, having put my printinghouse under the care of my partner, David Hall, absolufely left off bookselling, and removed to a more quiet...of corresponding more frequently and fully with Dr. Colden is none of the least. I shall only wish that what must be so agreeable to me may not prove troublesome... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 668 pages
...great happiness, leisure to read, study, make experiments, and converse at large with such ingonious and worthy men, as are pleased to honor me with their...uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of business." Soon after, Dr. Spence brought from England a considerable electrical apparatus, intending to lecture... | |
 | James Parton - 1865 - 672 pages
...serve if chosen. Thus you see I am in a fair way of having no other tasks, than such as I shall liko to give myself, and of enjoying what I look upon as...uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of business." Soon after, Dr. Spence brought from England a considerable electrical apparatus, intending to lecture... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Statesmen - 1876 - 394 pages
...quite master of my own time, and no longer, as the song has it, " at every one's call but my own." " Thus you see I am in a fair way of having no other...the common benefit of mankind, uninterrupted by the cares and fatigues of business." He wrote a treatise upon thundergusts, which displayed wonderful sagacity,... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 pages
...quite master of my own time, and no longer, as the song has it, " at every one's call but my own." " Thus you see I am in a fair way of having no other...the common benefit of mankind, uninterrupted by the cares and fatigues of business." He wrote a treatise upon thundergusts, which displayed wonderful sagacity,... | |
 | Local history - 1921 - 520 pages
...study, make Experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious & worthy Men as are pleas'd to honour me with their Friendship or Acquaintance, on such...Benefit of Mankind, uninterrupted by the little Cares & Fatigues of Business. Among other Pleasures I promise my self, that of Corresponding more frequently... | |
 | John Clyde Oswald - Early printed books - 1917 - 276 pages
...pleaf'd to honor me with their Friendfhip or Acquaintance, on fuch points as may produce fomething for the common Benefit of Mankind, uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of Bufmefs." But he was not to be permitted to make use as he chose of what he fondly hoped would be leisure... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - New York (State) - 1921 - 526 pages
...study, make Experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious & worthy Men as are pleas'd to honour me with their Friendship or Acquaintance, on such...Benefit of Mankind, uninterrupted by the little Cares & Fatigues of Business. Among other Pleasures I promise my self, that of Corresponding more frequently... | |
 | Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - Philosophy - 1925 - 422 pages
...which from boyhood up had been his chief delight. As early as 1745 he wrote to Cadwallader Colden: "I am in a fair way of having no other tasks than...uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of business. ' ' 6 And a year later he wrote to his mother : "At present I pass my time agreeably enough. I enjoy,... | |
 | Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1973 - 564 pages
...interests into partnership with David Hall to be able to enjoy "the leisure to read, study and ... to produce something for the common benefit of mankind,...uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of business" (16). Franklin had become a national figure as a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, and in 1757 he... | |
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I look upon as a great happiness, leisure to read, study, make experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious and worthy men, as are pleased to honor me with their friendship or acquaintance, on such points as may produce something for the common... 
