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The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits: With, An Essay on ... - Page 30
by Bernard Mandeville - 1728
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The Fable of the Bees : Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits: With an Essay ...

Bernard Mandeville - Charity-schools - 1806 - 570 pages
...moreover, an emulation amongft men, they divided the whole fpecies into two clafles. vaftly diifering from one another : the one confifted of abject, low-minded...after immediate enjoyment, were wholly incapable of felf-denial, and without regard to the good of others, had no higher aim than their private advantage...
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Remarks on The Fable of the Bees

William Law - Christian ethics - 1844 - 224 pages
...they divided the whole species into two classes, vastly differing from one another : the one consisted of abject, low-minded people, that, always hunting...others, had no higher aim than their private advantage; such as being enslaved by voluptuousness, yielded without resistance to every gross desire, and make...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...whole species into two classes, vastly differing TO iD 1724.] 170. from one another : the one consisted of abject, low-minded people, that always hunting...others, had no higher aim than their private advantage ; such as being enslaved by voluptuousness, yielded without resistance to every gross desire, and make...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...not to attempt it. [iD 1Ж. from one another : the one consisted of abject, low-minded ¡ [)coplo, that always hunting after immediate enjoyment, were...others, had no higher aim than their private advantage : such аз being enslaved by voluptuousness, yield«! without resistance to every gross desire, and...
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Geschichte und Kritik des ethischen Skepticismus

Josef Klemens Kreibig - Ethics - 1896 - 176 pages
...the whole Species into two Classes, vastly differing from one another: The one consisted of object, low-minded People, that always hunting after immediate...others, had no higher Aim, than their private Advantage . . . But the other Class was made up of lofty high-spirited Creatures, that free from sordid Selfishness,...
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British Moralists, Being Selections from Writers Principally of the ...

Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge - Ethics - 1897 - 476 pages
...they divided the whole species in two classes, vastly differing from one another. The one consisted of abject, low-minded people, that always hunting...others, had no higher aim than their private advantage, such as, being enslaved by voluptuousness, yielded without resistance to every gross desire, and made...
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The Classical Moralists: Selections Illustrating Ethics from Socrates to ...

Benjamin Rand - Ethics - 1909 - 832 pages
...they divided the whole species in two classes, vastly differing from one another. The one consisted of abject, low-minded people, that, always hunting...others, had no higher aim than their private advantage, such as, being enslaved by voluptuousness, yielded without resistance to every gross desire, and made...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...they divided the whole species into two classes, vastly differing from one another. The one consisted of abject, low-minded people, that, always hunting...others, had no higher aim than their private advantage; such as, being enslaved by voluptuousness, yielded without resistance to every gross desire, and made...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...they divided the whole species into two classes, vastly differing from one another. The one consisted of abject, low-minded people, that, always hunting...others, had no higher aim than their private advantage; such as, being enslaved by voluptuousness, yielded without resistance to every gross desire, and made...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...they divided the whole species into two classes, vastly differing from one another. The one consisted of abject, low-minded people, that, always hunting...others, had no higher aim than their private advantage; such as, being enslaved by voluptuousness, yielded without resistance to every gross desire, and made...
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