1Silence Dogood, No. 4, 14 May 1722 (Franklin Papers)
...Case most of them consulted their own Purses instead of their Childrens Capacities: So that...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Sir Hans Sloane, 2 June 1725 (Franklin Papers)
...Nothern Parts of America, I have brought from thence a Purse made of the Stone Asbestus,
3From the Casuist: The Case of the Missing Horse, 25 January 1732 (Franklin Papers)
...he conveniently can, putting clear into his own Purse, all that Charge their Owners must have...
4Poor Richard, 1733 (Franklin Papers)
Light purse, heavy heart.
5Poor Richard, 1734 (Franklin Papers)
From Suretyship, and from an empty Purse,
6Poor Richard, 1735 (Franklin Papers)
To Rome with a huge Purse, on this IntentFor with pleas’d Eyes he saw the proffer’d Purse,
7Poor Richard, 1736 (Franklin Papers)
The good Paymaster is Lord of another man’s Purse....letter, nor Hand in a purse, nor Ear in the...
8Poor Richard, 1737 (Franklin Papers)
While some mourn o’er an empty Purse in vain:
9John Webbe: The Detection, 17 November 1740 (Franklin Papers)
...of a Pickpocket. Both indeed rob you of your Purse, and both deserve a Gibbet; but, were...
10Poor Richard, 1741 (Franklin Papers)
For while their Purses can dispute,