 I am in a fair way of having no other tasks, than such as I shall like to give myself, and of enjoying what 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...  The Writings of Benjamin Franklin - Էջ 363Benjamin Franklin - 1905Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1876 - 394 էջ
...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...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 էջ
...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...the common benefit of mankind, uninterrupted by the cares and fatigues of business." He wrote a treatise upon thundergusts, which displayed wonderful sagacity,... | |
 | 1921 - 520 էջ
...read, study, make Experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious & worthy Men as are pleas'd to honour me with their Friendship or Acquaintance,...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 - 1917 - 276 էջ
...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 - 1921 - 526 էջ
...read, study, make Experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious & worthy Men as are pleas'd to honour me with their Friendship or Acquaintance,...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 - 1925 - 422 էջ
...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...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 - 1973 - 564 էջ
...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... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - 1984 - 300 էջ
...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...uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of business. From 1748 to his death in 1790, Franklin grasped every possible opportunity to adorn his polis and... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 322 էջ
...read, study, make Experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious and worthy Men as are pleas'd to honour me with their Friendship or Acquaintance,...uninterrupted by the little Cares and Fatigues of Business" (3:318). As part of these 'experiments,' he took the opportunity of a gift to the Library Company of... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - 2004 - 330 էջ
...read, study, make experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious and worthy Men as are pleas'd to honour me with their Friendship or Acquaintance...uninterrupted by the little Cares and Fatigues of Business."' For Franklin the most significant of those "Philosophical Studies and Amusements," and an important... | |
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