 | 1804 - 844 sidor
...your sedentary condition. But what is your practice after dinner ? Walking in the beautiful gan.li/ns of those friends with whom you have dined, would be...they find you thus engaged for two or three hours ! Tnis is your perpetual recreation, and the least c-li^ible of any for a sedentary man, because, instead... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 590 sidor
...to you on business. Thus the time passes till one, without any kind of bodily exercise. But all this I could pardon, in regard, as you say, to your sedentary...choice of men of sense : yours is to be fixed down to chess, where you are found engaged for two or three hours ! This is your perpetual recreation, which... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 sidor
...to you on business. Thus the time passes till one, without any kind of bodily exercise. But all this I could pardon, in regard, as you say, to your sedentary...choice of men of sense : yours is to be fixed down to chess, where you are found engaged for two or three hours! This is your perpetual recreation,'which... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 sidor
...to you on business. Thus the time passes till one, without any kind of bodily exercise. But all this I could pardon, in regard, as you say, to your sedentary...choice of men of sense : yours is, to be fixed down to chess, where you are found engaged for two or three hours ! This is your perpetual recreation, which... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1819 - 520 sidor
...any kind of bodily exercise. But all this I could pardon, in regard, as you say, to your sedeniary condition. But what is your practice after dinner?...choice of men of sense : yours is, to be fixed down to chess, where you are found engaged for two or three hours! This is your perpetual recreation, which... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 sidor
...say, to your sedentary condition. But what is your practice after dinner ? Walking in the beantiful gardens of those friends with whom you have dined,...choice of men of sense : yours is to be fixed down to chess, where you are found engaged for two or three hours ! This is your perpetual recreation, which... | |
 | 1821 - 356 sidor
...say, to your sedentary condition. But what is your practice after dinner? Walking in the beantiful gardens of those friends with whom you have dined,...the choice of men of sense : yours is to be fixed dowu to chess, where you are found engaged for two or three hours! This is your perpetual recreation,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 584 sidor
...to you on business. Thus the time passes till one, without any kind of bodily exercise. But all this I could pardon, in regard, as you say, to your sedentary...choice of men of sense ; yours is to be fixed down to chess, where you are found engaged for two or three hours ! This is your perpetual recreation, which... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 600 sidor
...to you on business. Thus the time passes till one, without any kind of bodily exercise. But all this I could pardon, in regard, as you say, to your sedentary...choice of men of sense ; yours is to be fixed down to chess, where you are found engaged for two or three hours ! This is your perpetual recreation, which... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 sidor
...to you on business. Thus the time passes till one, without any kind of bodily exercise. But all this I could pardon, in regard, as you say, to your sedentary...choice of men of sense ; yours is to be fixed down to chess, where you are found engaged for two or three hours! This is your perpetual recreation, which... | |
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Immediately afterward you sit down to write at your desk, or converse with persons who apply to you on business. Thus the time passes till one, without any kind of bodily exercise. But all this I could pardon, in regard, as you say, to your sedentary... 
