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1696.  Locke, Lower. Interest (ed. 2), 43. Lazy and Unworking Shopkeepers in this being worse than Gamesters.

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1724.  Briton, No. 24. 105. Petty includes People of all Professions and Offices … in his unworking Tenth of the Nation.

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1830.  Bowles, Life Bp. Ken, I. 201. Obese Bishops, oscitant Deans, and ‘unworking’ Clergy!

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1843.  Carlyle, Past & Pr., III. ix. The partridge-nets of an Unworking Dilletantism.

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1848.  Mill, Pol. Econ., V. x. § 3. II. 495. A practice essentially bad, that of converting the working classes into unworking classes.

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