| Thomas Gordon - Great Britain - 1751 - 398 pages
...a " Book, entituled, The Fable of the Bees, or " Private Vices, Publick Benefits, with an Eflay tc on Charity and Charity-Schools, and a Search " into the Nature of Society, the fifth Edition ; *' to which is added, a Vindication of the Book *' from the Afperfions contained... | |
| Biography - 1762 - 668 pages
...turned honeft; upon which he afterwards wrote remarks, and publifhed the whole at London in ihe year 1723, under the title of The fable of the bees, or private vices made public benefits -, with an Eflay on charity and charity fchools, and a fearch into the nature of fociety. In the preface to this... | |
| Stephen Jones - Biography - 1805 - 470 pages
...witty, but some which are supposed to have had a very ill effeá upon society. His chief work is, " The Fable of the Bees ; or, Private Vices made Public Benefits ; with an Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, and» Search into the Nature of Society.** The mischievous tendency of this work seems... | |
| John Aikin - Biography - 1807 - 684 pages
...Knaves turned honest," was the ground-work of the publication by which he is best known, which appeared in 1723 under the title of " The Fable of the Bees...Charity-Schools, and a Search into the Nature of Society," octavo. The foundation of the reasoning in this piece is the sophism that every thing which has been... | |
| Stephen Jones - Biography - 1811 - 490 pages
...witty, but some which are supposed to have bad a very il! effect upon society. His chief work is, '* The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices made Public Benefits ; with an F .,iv on Charity and Charity Si hoofs, and л Search into the Nature of aociety." The mischievous... | |
| Friedrich Adolf Ebert - Bibliographical literature - 1821 - 1136 pages
...a Ms. lately discover'd in Herculanum. Lond., 1749, g. Eine müssige Erdichtung. *7252. FABLE, the, of the bees, or private vices made public benefits, with an essay on charity and charity school», and a search into the nature of society (by Bern, de Mandeville). Lond., 1725-29,... | |
| Robert Watt - English literature - 1824 - 720 pages
...enlarged into the celebrated work known by the name of, The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices Publick Benefits ; with an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools, and a search into the nature of Society. Lond. 1723, Svo. 2d part of the fable. 1723, Svo. Both parts. ut 732, 2 vols. Svo. This was attacked... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...entitled The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves turned Honest; he afterwards re-published it with additions, under the title of The Fable of the Bees, or Private...made Public Benefits ; with an Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, and a Search into the Nature of Society. This book was presented by the jury of Middlesex... | |
| William Thomas Lowndes - English imprints - 1834 - 1130 pages
...Virgin unmasked, 1709, and Treatise on Diseases, 1730, 1/. 2s. The Fable of the Bees, or private Vices public Benefits; with an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools, and a Search into the Nature of Society. London, 1723-8. 8vo. 2 vols. Dr. Johnson observed, ' the fallacy of this book is, that Mandevillc defines... | |
| Collectanea topographica et genealogica - 1836 - 448 pages
...428. k Daughter and coheiress of John Scarle, of Finchley, Esq. i Bernard Mandeville, MD was author of " The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices made Public Benefits ; " " The Virgin unmasked, or a Dialogue on Love and Marriage," and several other productions. The... | |
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