| James Parton - 1864 - 668 頁
...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 頁
...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 - 1876 - 394 頁
...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 頁
...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,... | |
| 1921 - 520 頁
...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 - 1917 - 276 頁
...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 頁
...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 - 1925 - 422 頁
...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 - 1973 - 564 頁
...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 頁
...state of mind on the point of retiring from business he set forth in a letter to Cadwallader Colden: I am in a fair way of having no other tasks than 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... | |
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