Not an angel, by the author of 'Ethel'.1863 |
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Pagina 76 - It is better to take things as they are, and make the best of them without vain repinings in an equally vain attempt to retreat into a dreamland of philosophy. VII Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees"1 THE most complete antithesis of Shaftesbury was Bernard de Mandeville, author of the Fable of the Bees.