 | Margaret Ellen Newell - 1998 - 358 pàgines
...contemporaries about Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees. In Mandeville's allegorical beehive society, . . . luxury Employ'da million of the poor, and Odious pride...ministers of industry; Their darling folly, fickleness In diet, furniture and dress. The strange ridic'lous vice, was made The very wheel that turn'd the trade.32... | |
 | Amélie Rorty - 2001 - 376 pàgines
...Sobriety, Serve Drunkenness and Gluttony. The Root of Evil, Avarice, That damn'd ill-natur'd Baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury...of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more: Envy it self, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture... | |
 | Eduardo Hernando Nieto - 2001 - 300 pàgines
...irremediablemente egoístas; pero, mientras que esa situación era para Montaigne motivo suficiente para 24 «Whilst Luxury Employ'da Million of the Poor, and odious Pride a Million more: Envy it self. and Vanity. Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness. In Diet, Furniture... | |
 | John E. Crowley - 2001 - 386 pàgines
...to public and private prosperity. The Root of Evil, Avarice, That damn'd ill-natur'd baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury...of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more: Envy it self, and Vanity, Were ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture... | |
 | David John Farmer - 2005 - 248 pàgines
...were pursuing their own self-interest, bees smelling the flowers and sucking up the nectar. "While Luxury / Employ'da Million of the Poor / And odious...itself, and Vanity / Were Ministers of Industry." Yet, when the bees reformed (when the "knaves turn'd honest"), disaster struck the now-grumbling hive.... | |
 | Wade Rowland - 2006 - 302 pàgines
...damned ill-natured baneful vice, Was slave to Prodigality. That noble sin; whilst Luxury Employed a million of the poor, And odious Pride a million more:...ministers of industry; Their darling folly, Fickleness In diet, furniture, and dress That strange ridiculous vice, was made The very wheel that turned the trade... | |
 | 1881 - 620 pàgines
...th' esteem of foreigners. * » » ' The root of evil, avarice, That damn'd ill-natured baneful vice, Was slave to prodigality, That noble sin ; whilst...million of the poor And odious pride a million more.' The commonwealth was in the height of prosperity, when some grumblers cried out : ' Good Gods, had... | |
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The root of evil, avarice, That damn'd ill-natur'd baneful vice, Was slave to prodigality, That noble sin; whilst luxury Employ'da million of the poor, And odious pride a million more: Envy itself and vanity Were ministers of industry... 
