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"The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits."
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Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"This has often made me compare the Virtues of great Men to your large China Jars: they make a fine Shew, and are Ornamental even to a Chimney; one would by the Bulk they appear in, and the Value that is set upon 'em, think they might be very useful, but look into a thousand of them, and you'll f...
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
Date: 1705, 1714, 1732
"That Resolution depends upon this Tone of the Spirits, appears likewise from the effects of strong Liquors, the fiery Particles whereof crowding into the Brain, strengthen the Spirits; their Operation imitates that of Anger, which I said before was an Ebullition of the Spirits."
preview | full record— Mandeville, Bernard (bap. 1670, d. 1733)
