1A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, 1725 (Franklin Papers)
...and Pain that the Antient Heathens believ’d the idle Fable of their Elizium, that State of...
2The Busy-Body, No. 8, 27 March 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Many are the idle Stories told of the private Success of some People,...
3Poor Richard Improved, 1757 (Franklin Papers)
...Master. But he that gives himself only the idle Divertisements of a Child, cannot reflect...
4To George Washington from William Peachey, 22 August 1757 (Washington Papers)
...I cou’d have continued wth you, for the idle or rather sedentary Life that I am now...
5Poor Richard Improved, 1758 (Franklin Papers)
The idle Man is the Devil’s Hireling; whose Livery is...
6[October 1758] (Adams Papers)
...the Law. He has a just Contempt of the idle, incurious, Pleasure hunting young fellows of the...
7Wednesday [11 October]. (Adams Papers)
...the Law. He has a just Contempt of the idle, incurious, Pleasure hunting young fellows of the...
...these four millions but retrench a little of the idle time they spend, and increase their...
9[Summer 1759.] (Adams Papers)
Again I find my Thoughts ruminating the idle Chat, and Banter, I had with K. and...
10The Interest of Great Britain Considered, [17 April 1760] (Franklin Papers)
...and settle in a foreign land. Some of the idle and drunken may be enticed away, but...