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Author Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.

Title The fable of the bees, or, Private vices, publick benefits [microform] / 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.

Imprint London : Printed for J. Roberts, 1714.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets  LEL 12031    ---  Available
Description 228 p. ; 16 cm.
Series Library of English literature ; LEL 12031
Note Page 139 misnumbered 319.
Includes table of contents.
"Mandeville published in 1705 a doggerel poem called 'the grumbling hive, or Knaves turned honest' ... In 1714 it was republished anonymously with an 'Inquiry into the origin of moral virtue,' and a series of notes, under the title 'The fable of the bees, or Private vices public benefits.'" - Dictionary of national biography.
A second part was added to later editions.
Reproduction Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 12031)
Note s 1976 ilu n
Subject Ethics.
Virtue.
Added Title The grumbling hive [microform]
Knaves turned honest [microform.]
Private vices, publick benefits [microform.]

 
    
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