 | Bernard Mandeville - 1728 - 524 pàgines
...And ever fince, (G.) The worft of all the Multitude Pid fomething for the Common Good, i Tins . TH is was the State's-Craft, that maintain'd The Whole, of which each Part complain'd : This, as in Muiick Harmony Made Jarrings in the main agree j (H.) Parties direftly oppofite, Affift each other,... | |
 | William Law - 1844 - 224 pàgines
...virtue, who from politics Has learn'da thousand cunning tricks, Was, by their happy influence, 105 Made friends with vice; and ever since, The worst...multitude Did something for the common good. This was the state's craft, that maintain'd The whole of which each part complain'd : 170 This, as in music harmony... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1871 - 536 pàgines
...not an ultimate end, but should only be considered as the means to procure happiness ? Lys. I do. ' The worst of all the multitude Did something for the common good ; This was the State's-craft that maintained The whole, of which each part complained. This, as in music harmony Made jarrings in the... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1871 - 528 pàgines
...not an ultimate end, but should only be considered as the means to procure happiness ? Lys. I do. ' The worst of all the multitude Did something for the common good ; This was the State's-craft that maintained The whole, of which each part complained. This, as in music harmony Made jarrings in the... | |
 | Paul Goldbach - 1886 - 104 pàgines
...Thousand Cunning Tricks, 165. Was, by their happy Influence. Made Friends with Vice: And ever since, (G.) The worst of all the Multitude Did something for the Common Good. This was the State's Craft,- that maintain'd 170. The Whole of which each Part complain'd: This, as in Musick Harmony... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1890 - 448 pàgines
...conspired to make them great ; And virtue, who from politics Had learned a thousand cunning tricks, Was, by their happy influence, Made friends with vice ;...multitude Did something for the common good. This was the state's craft, that maintained The whole, of which each part complained : This, as in music harmony... | |
 | Johann Philipp Glock - 1891 - 438 pàgines
...conspir'd to make them Great; And Virtue, who from Politicks Had learn'da Thousand Gunning Tricks, 165 Was, by their happy Influence, Made Friends with Vice:...Multitude Did something' for the Common Good. This was the State's Craft, that maintain'd 170 The Whole of which each Part complain'd: This, as in Music Harmony... | |
 | Simon Nelson Patten - 1899 - 456 pàgines
...trade. However the doctrine may be stated, it is but a refined form of the paradox of Mandeville that "The worst of all the multitude did something for the common good." Mandeville thought that trade was promoted by the gratification of the desires and passions. The drunkard,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1922 - 522 pàgines
...society, is described in the poem as prospering greatly so long as it was full of vice : — •"Die. worst of all the multitude Did something for the common good. This was the state's craft, that maintain')! The whole, of which each part complain'd : This, as in musick harmony,... | |
 | I. Primer - 1975 - 246 pàgines
...same bone-chilling irony. But the epigraph of "Remark (G)," from which this passage comes, is this: The worst of all the Multitude Did something for the Common Good. And if Mandeville is serious about his paradox — insofar as one can be serious about any paradox... | |
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And Virtue, who from Politicks Had learn'da Thousand Cunning Tricks, Was, by their happy Influence, Made Friends with Vice: And ever since, The worst of all the Multitude Did something for the Common Good. 
