...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...

...make Experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious and worthy Men as are pleas'd to honour me with their Friendship or Acquaintance, on such...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...

...make experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious and worthy Men as are pleas'd to honour me with their Friendship or Acquaintance on such Points...uninterrupted by the little Cares and Fatigues of Business."' For Franklin the most significant of those "Philosophical Studies and Amusements," and an important...

...converse at large with such ingenious and worthy men as are pleased to honor me with their friendship and acquaintance, on such points as may produce something...uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of business. The experiment foremost on Ben Franklin's mind had to do with the most mysterious of natural occurrences...

...make Experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious and worthy Men as are pleas'd to honour me with their Friendship or Acquaintance, on such...Fatigues of Business. Among other Pleasures I promise my self, that of Corresponding more frequently and fully with Dr. Colden is none of the least; I shall...

...make experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious and worthy Men as are pleas'd to honour me with their Friendship or Acquaintance on such Points...uninterrupted by the little Cares and Fatigues of Business."23 But, as he says in his Autobiography, "the Publick, now considering me as a Man of Leisure,...

...make Experiments, and converse at large with such ingenious and worthy Men as are pleas'd to honour me with their Friendship or Acquaintance, on such...produce something for the common Benefit of Mankind." Yet, two years later, as the growing alliance between the French and the Six Nations threatened British...

...we esteem him a benevolent and upright, as well as a sensible man. I hope he will arrive here early in the summer, and bring with him some cannon from...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...

...had given up his printing business in order, as he wrote at the time to Cadwallader Colden, to gain ''leisure to read, study, make experiments, and converse...produce something for the common benefit of mankind." " His reward came quickly in his discoveries of electrical laws which could be immediately applied...