Busy-Body

In 1729, the Mercury published six of Franklin's Busy-Body Papers, a series of contributions from Benjamin Franklin that so offended the governor and council that they sent Bradford to prison for a time, but he wasn't there long.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

‘Why, if we were all as industrious as you, little Busy-Body, we should begin to work as soon as we could crawl, and there would be a bad thing!’

Our Mutual Friend 2004

He wrote the "Busy-Body," and annually made the plebeian and celebrated "Almanac," and the "Ephemera" that were not ephemeral, and is the author of the story of "The Whistle," that everybody knows, and everybody reads with shamefacedness because it is a brief chapter out of his own history.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

Busy-Body, a member in good standing of a radical church.

Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory

The Busy-Body; or Successful Spy; being the entertaining History of Mons.

The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood Whicher, George Frisbie 1915

One of his Busy-Body papers, February 18, 1728, begins with the statement that: "It is said that the Persians, in their ancient constitution, had public schools in which virtue was taught as a liberal art, or science;" and he goes on to laud the plan highly.

Benjamin Franklin 1888

Addison, whose manner he afterward imitated in his _Busy-Body_ papers in the Philadelphia _Weekly Mercury_.

Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

Addison, whose manner he afterward imitated in his _Busy-Body_ papers in the Philadelphia _Weekly Mercury_.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

Goldsmith wrote for some of the most successful, such as the “Bee,” the “Busy-Body,” and the “Lady's Magazine.”

Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849

'Why, if we were all as industrious as you, little Busy-Body, we should begin to work as soon as we could crawl, and there would be a bad thing!'

Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841