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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits."
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Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"Good Manners have nothing to do with Virtue or Religion; instead of extinguishing, they rather inflame the Passions"
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"A vicious young Fellow, after having been an Hour or two at Church, a Ball, or any other Assembly, where there is a great parcel of handsome Women dress'd to the best Advantage, will have his Imagination more fired than if he had the same time been Poling at Guildhall, or walking in the Country ...
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)