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The fable of the bees, or, Private vices, publick benefits : containing, several discourses, to demonstrate, that human frailties, during the degeneracy of mankind, may be turn'd to the advantage of the civil society, and made to supply the place of moral virtues.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Ethics.
- Virtue--Early works to 1800.
- Virtue.
- Physical Description:
- 24 unnumbered pages, 228 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Fable of the bees
- Private vices, publick benefits
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Roberts ..., 1714.
- Notes:
- Attributed to Bernard Mandeville by ESTC.
- Signatures: A-K¹² L⁶ (I3 signed I2).
- Title within double line border.
- Errata on p. [24].
- Local Notes:
- Lea Library copy bound with: Boulton, Richard. The possibility and reality of magick, sorcery, and witchcraft, demostrated, or, A vindication of a compleat history of magick, sorcery, and witchcraft. London : Printed for J. Roberts ..., 1714.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T077573
- OCLC:
- 15665856
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