 | Bernard Mandeville - 1728 - 524 pages
...Darknefs, ftudied Artifices and invented Colours have been made ufe of to run down Religion and Virtue as prejudicial to Society, and detrimental to the State ; and to recommend Luxury, Avarice, Pride, and all kind of Vices, as being neceffary to Publick Welfare, and not tending to the... | |
 | Theodore Schroeder - 1919 - 460 pages
...Darkness, studied Artifices, and invented Colours, have been made use of to run down Religion and Virtue, as prejudicial to Society, and detrimental to the State; and to recommend Luxury, Avarice, Pride, and all kind of Vices, as being necessary to Public Welfare, and not tending to the... | |
 | Bernard Mandeville, E. J. Hundert - 1997 - 268 pages
...presentment to the Middlesex Grand Jury claimed that the Fable was designed "to run down Religion and Virtue as prejudicial to Society, and detrimental to the State; and to recommend Luxury, Avarice, Pride, and all vices, as being necessary to Public Welfare, and not tending to the Destruction... | |
 | Lorraine Daston, Fernando Vidal - 2010 - 529 pages
...made to the Middlesex Grand Jury on the grounds that it was intended "to run down Religion and Virtue as prejudicial to Society, and detrimental to the State; and to recommend Luxury, Avarice, Pride, and all vices, as being necessary to Public Welfare." u John Dennis, one of Mandeville's... | |
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Colours, have been made use of to run down Religion and Virtue, as prejudicial to Society, and detrimental to the State; and to recommend Luxury, Avarice, Pride, and all kind of Vices, as being necessary to Public Welfare... 