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1696. Locke, Lower. Interest (ed. 2), 43. Lazy and Unworking Shopkeepers in this being worse than Gamesters.
1724. Briton, No. 24. 105. Petty includes People of all Professions and Offices in his unworking Tenth of the Nation.
1830. Bowles, Life Bp. Ken, I. 201. Obese Bishops, oscitant Deans, and unworking Clergy!
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr., III. ix. The partridge-nets of an Unworking Dilletantism.
1848. Mill, Pol. Econ., V. x. § 3. II. 495. A practice essentially bad, that of converting the working classes into unworking classes.