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, Volumen 1J. Tonson, 1728 |
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... t ; as your Gamesters do , That , tho ' at fair Play , ne'er will own Before the Lofers what they've won , BUT who can all their Frauds repeat ? The very B4 BUT Knaves turn'd Honeft . 7 3 Whilft others never came in Play, ...
... t ; as your Gamesters do , That , tho ' at fair Play , ne'er will own Before the Lofers what they've won , BUT who can all their Frauds repeat ? The very B4 BUT Knaves turn'd Honeft . 7 3 Whilft others never came in Play, ...
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... their happy Influence , Made Friends with Vice : And ever fince , ( G. ) The worst of all the Multitude Did fomething for the Common Good , THIS THIS was the State's - Craft , that maintain'd The Knaves turn'd Honeft .
... their happy Influence , Made Friends with Vice : And ever fince , ( G. ) The worst of all the Multitude Did fomething for the Common Good , THIS THIS was the State's - Craft , that maintain'd The Knaves turn'd Honeft .
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... Vain is Mortal Happiness ! Had they but known the Bounds of Bliss And that Perfection here below Is more than Gods can well bestow ; ; The The Grumbling Brutes had been content With Minifters and Government Knaves turn'd Honeft .
... Vain is Mortal Happiness ! Had they but known the Bounds of Bliss And that Perfection here below Is more than Gods can well bestow ; ; The The Grumbling Brutes had been content With Minifters and Government Knaves turn'd Honeft .
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... and fudden was th ' Alteration ! In half an Hour , the Nation round , Meat fell a Penny in the Pound . The Mask Hypocrify's flung down , From the great Statesman 2 The Knaves turn'd Honeft . 13 Merc'ry fmil'd at th' Impudence, ...
... and fudden was th ' Alteration ! In half an Hour , the Nation round , Meat fell a Penny in the Pound . The Mask Hypocrify's flung down , From the great Statesman 2 The Knaves turn'd Honeft . 13 Merc'ry fmil'd at th' Impudence, ...
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... honeft Hive , thofe that got enough , All , except thofe that With Inkhorns by their fides troop'd off JUSTICE hang'd fome , fet others free ; And after Goal delivery , Her Prefence being no more requir'd , With all her Train and Pomp ...
... honeft Hive , thofe that got enough , All , except thofe that With Inkhorns by their fides troop'd off JUSTICE hang'd fome , fet others free ; And after Goal delivery , Her Prefence being no more requir'd , With all her Train and Pomp ...
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Términos y frases comunes
againſt almoſt Appetites becauſe befides beſt Bleffing body Buſineſs call'd Catiline Cauſe Charity-Schools Children Circumftances Cloaths confequently confiderable confifts Country Creatures Cuſtom defire diſcover elfe elſe employ'd encreaſe endeavour Envy eſpecially faid fame Faſhions Fear feem felf felves feveral fhall fhew filly fince firft firſt fome foon forc'd fpeak Frugality fuch fuffer fufficient fure greateſt Happineſs himſelf honeft Honour Houſes imagine impoffible Induſtry Intereft Labour laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs leſs likewife live Love Luxury Mafter Miſchief moft Money moſt muft muſt Nation Nature neceffary Neceffity neral never Numbers obferve occafion Paffion Perfons Pity pleaſe Pleaſure poffible Poor prefent Pride Publick raiſe Reaſon reft Religion ſee ſeem ſeen ſelf Senfe ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall Society ſpeak ſpend ſtrong thefe themſelves ther theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand Trade underſtand unleſs uſe vaft vaſt Vice Virtue whilft Wiſdom Wiſhes World
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Página 459 - THIS BOOK. FORMS PART OF THE ORIGINAL LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BOUGHT IN EUROPE 1838 TO 1839 BY ASA CRAY a, >^ ^f-, LITERARY REMAINS OF TUB LATE WILLIAM HAZLITT.
Página 37 - ... the nearer we search into human nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the moral virtues are the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride.
Página 162 - Hay; after that he falls upon the Beef with a voracious Appetite, and crams himself up to his Throat. Is it not provoking to hear John cry every Day that Pudding is all his Delight, and that he don't value the Beef of a Farthing?
Página 28 - The chief thing therefore, which lawgivers and other wise men, that have laboured for the establishment of society, have endeavoured, has been to make the people they were to govern believe, that it was more beneficial for every body to conquer than indulge his appetites, and much better to mind the public than what seemed his private interest.
Página 200 - Maxims are observ'd, must always be throng'd and can never want People, as long as there is any in the World. Would you have them Bold and Warlike, turn to Military Discipline, make good use of their Fear, and flatter their Vanity with Art and Assiduity: But would you moreover render them an opulent, knowing and polite Nation, teach 'em Commerce with Foreign Countries, and if possible get into the Sea, which to compass spare no Labour nor Industry, and let no...
Página 406 - ... what we call evil in this world, moral as well as natural, is the grand principle that makes us sociable creatures, the solid basis, the life and support of all trades and employments without exception: that there we must look for the true origin of all arts and sciences, and that the moment evil ceases, the society must be spoiled, if not totally dissolved.
Página 30 - To introduce moreover an emulation amongst men, they divided the whole species into two classes, vastly differing from one another. The one consisted of abject, low-minded people, that always hunting after immediate enjoyment, were wholly incapable of self-denial, and without regard to the good of others, had no higher aim than their private advantage...
Página 34 - It being the interest then of the very worst of them, more than any, to preach up public-spiritedness, that they might reap the fruits of the labour and self-denial of others...
Página 357 - In the East formerly sisters married brothers, and it was meritorious for a man to marry his mother. Such alliances are abominable; but it is certain that, whatever horror we conceive at the thoughts of them, there is nothing in Nature repugnant against them but what is built upon mode and custom.
Página 34 - VICE if in that action there could be observed the least prospect that it might either be injurious to any of the society, or ever render himself less serviceable to others; and to give the name of VIRTUE to every performance by which man, contrary to the impulse of nature, should endeavour the benefit of others, or the conquest of his own passions out of a rational ambition of being good.