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PITHY QUOTE FROM Mandeville: Collected Works

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To gain this Victory, a certain Lady named Julia, put a young Fellow Into Bed with a young Girl, and laid a Crucifix as a Barrier betwixt them. Which, if it kept them Virtuous, ought not to be omitted in the Catalogue of the Miracles that have been wrought by Crucifixes.

The Collected Works of Bernard Mandeville. Electronic Edition. Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness, CHAP. VIII. Of SCHISM.

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The Collected Works of Bernard Mandeville. Electronic Edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-139-1

Language: English, Latin

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Bernard de Mandeville. Detail: engraving, Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church and National Happiness. London, 1720. Printed, and sold by T. Jauncy, at the Angel, without Temple-bar, and J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane MDCCXX

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Bibliography

  • Bernardi à Mandeville de medicina oratio scholastica, publicè habita, cum è scholâ Erasmianâ ad Academiam promoveretur, Octob. MDCLXXXV, Rotterodami, Typis Regneri Leers, 1685. (With an accompanying English translation by Francis McKee)
  • Disputatio philosophica de Brutorum Operationibus. Quam annuente summo numine, sub presidio Clarissimi, Acutissimique Viri D. Burcheri de Volder, Medicinae & Philosophiae Doctoris, hujusque, ut & Matheseos in Illustri Accademia Lugd. Batav. Professoris Ordinarii. Publice defendendam assumit Bernardus de Mandeville, Rotter.-Bat. Ad diem 23 Mart. loco horisque solitis, ante meridiem, Lugduni Batavorum, Abrahamum Elzevirer, 1689. (With an accompanying English translation by Francis McKee)
  • Disputatio medica inauguralis de Chylosi Vitiata. Quam annuente divina gratia Ex auctoritate Magnifici Rectoris, D. Wolferdi Senguerdii, L.A.M. Phil. & J. U. Doct. illiusque in Illustri Academiâ Lugd. Bat. Profess. ordinarii, celeberrimi, & c. Nec non Amplissimi Senatûs Academici Consensu & Almae Facultatis Medicae Decreto, pro gradu doctoratus, Summisque in Medicina Honorabilis ac Privilegiis ritè & legitimè consequendis, Publico examini subjicit Bernardus de Mandeville, Rott.-Bat. Ad diem 30 Mart. horâ locoque solitis, Lugduni Batavorum, Abrahamum Elzevirer, 1691. (With an accompanying English translation by Francis McKee)
  • In authorem de usu interno cantharidum scribentem, in Titus cantharidum in medicina usus internus, by Joannem Groenevelt, M. D., London, 1698. (With an accompanying English translation.)
  • Some Fables after the Easie and Familiar Method of Monsieur de la Fontaine, London, Printed for Richard Wellington at the Dolphin and Crown at the West-End of St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1703. (Included in Aesop Dress'd)
  • The Pamphleteers. A Satyr, London, 1703.
  • Aesop Dress’d, or a Collection of Fable Writ in Familiar Verse, London, Printed for Richard Wellington at the Dolphin and Crown at the West-End of St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1704.
  • Typhon: or the Wars Between the Gods and the Giants: A Burlesque Poem in imitation of the Comical Mons. Scarron, London, Printed for J. Pero, at the Swan, and S. Illidge, at the Rose and Crown in Little-Britain, and Sold by J. Nutt near Stationers-Hall, 1704.
  • The Virgin Unmask’d: or Female Dialogues Betwixt an Elderly Maiden Lady and her Niece on several Diverting Discourses on Love, Marriage, Memoirs and Morals of the Times, London, Printed, and are to be Sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, and J. Woodward in Thread-needle-street, 1709.
  • The Female Tatler, by "a Society of Ladies", London, A. Baldwin, 1709-10.
  • A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Passions, London, Printed and Sold by Dryden Leach, in Elliot’s Court, in the Little-Old-Baily, and W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, 1711.
  • Wishes to a Godson, with other Miscellany Poems, by B. M., London, Printed for J. Baker, at the Black-Boy, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1712.
  • The Mischiefs that Ought Justly to be Apprehended from a Whig-Government, London, Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane, 1714.
  • Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church and National Happiness, by B. M., London, Printed, and Sold by T. Jauncy, at the Angel without Temple-Bar, and J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane, 1720.
  • "An essay on description in poetry" with "A description of a rouz’d lion", in St. James Journal, n. 52, April 20th, 1723.
  • "The death of Turnus", in St. James Journal, n. 55, May 11th 1723.
  • A Modest Defence of Publick Stews: or, an Essay upon the Whoring as it is now practis’d in these Kingdoms, Written by a Layman, London, Printed by A. Moore near St. Paul’s, 1724.
  • An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn: and a Proposal for some Regulations concerning Felons in Prison, and the Good Effects to be Expected from them, by B. Mandeville, M. D., London, Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts in Warwick Lane, 1725.
  • A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases in three Dialogues, London, Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand, 1730.
  • An Enquiry into the Origin of the Honour, and the Usefulness of Christianity in War, by the Author of the Fable of the Bees, London, Printed for John Brotherton, at the Bible in Cronhill, 1732.
  • A Letter to Dion. Occasion’d by his Book call’d Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher, By the Author of the Fable of the Bees, London, Printed and Sold by J. Roberts in Warwick Lane, 1732.
  • An Anatomy of Power: The Early Works of Bernard Mandeville. By Anthony Patrick Francis McKee. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 1991.

We gratefully acknowledge the use of Dr. McKee's translation (with his permission) of Mandeville's early medical texts.



The Fable of the Bees (1705-1729):

  • The Grumbling Hive; or Knaves Turn’d Honest, London, S. Ballard, A. Baldwin, 1705, in The Fable of the Bees, ed. by F.B. Kaye, 2 voll. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924.
  • An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue, in The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits, London, Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane, 1714, in The Fable of the Bees, ed. by F.B. Kaye, 2 voll. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924.
  • Remarks, in The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits, London, Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane, 1714, in The Fable of the Bees, ed. by F.B. Kaye, 2 voll. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924.
  • An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools, in The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits, London, Printed for Edmund Parker, 1723, in The Fable of the Bees, ed. by F.B. Kaye, 2 voll. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924.
  • A Search into the Nature of Society, in The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits, London, Printed for Edmund Parker, 1723, in The Fable of the Bees, ed. by F.B. Kaye, 2 voll. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924.
  • A Vindication of the Book, from the Aspersions Contain’d in a Presentment of the Grand Jury of Middlesex, and An Abusive Letter to Lord C., in The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits, London, Printed for J. Tonson, at Shakespeare’s Head, over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand, 1724, in The Fable of the Bees, ed. by F.B. Kaye, 2 voll. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924.
  • The Fable of the Bees. Part II. By the Author of the First, London, Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts in Warwick Lane, 1729, in The Fable of the Bees, ed. by F.B. Kaye, 2 voll. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924.


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