 | John Brown - 1801 - 432 pagine
...Suggeftions of their feveral Paffions. Tis well known, that the Writer of the Fable of the Bees,was neither a Saint in his Life, nor a Hermit in his Diet: He feems to have been Mafter of a very confiderable Sagacity, much Knowledge of the World, as it appears... | |
 | Louis Schneider - 624 pagine
...he was a successful and very well known writer. It is also easy to believe from his writings that he was "neither a saint in his life nor a hermit in his diet." 3 But we must soon turn to his time and indeed to his writings to learn substantially more about him.... | |
 | Louis Schneider - 624 pagine
...he was a successful and very well known writer. It is also easy to believe from his writings that he was "neither a saint in his life nor a hermit in his diet."3 But we must soon turn to his time and indeed to his writings to learn substantially more about... | |
 | Louis Schneider - 624 pagine
...he was a successful and very well known writer. It is also easy to believe from his writings that he was "neither a saint in his life nor a hermit in his diet."1 But we must soon turn to his time and indeed to his writings to learn substantially more about... | |
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... than this bare recital is provided by Kaye but not much that we can be sure of, although it does appear likely that Mandeville was at any rate a reasonably successful physician and it is certain that he was a successful and very well known writer.... 