An enquiry whether a general practice of virtue tends to the wealth or poverty, benefit or disadvantage of a people? : In which the pleas offered by the author of The fable of bees, or private vices publick benefits, for the usefulness of vice and roguery are considered. With some thoughts concerning a toleration of publick stews.

  • Blewitt, George.
Date:
1725
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Credit: An enquiry whether a general practice of virtue tends to the wealth or poverty, benefit or disadvantage of a people? : In which the pleas offered by the author of The fable of bees, or private vices publick benefits, for the usefulness of vice and roguery are considered. With some thoughts concerning a toleration of publick stews. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 call’d Anger, and feldom or never appears either in 4 Mao or Bead, but when ’tis excited by Hunger or 6 Lull1. As thefe Appetites in Men are very weak, and 4 eafily fatisfiedm; fo there’s little or no true Courage 4 among them, except among the Clergy, who are born 4 with a natural Tendency, to a great Share of thisCou- 4 rage, as 1 have prov’d elfewhere n. 4 This was the Manner, after which favageMan was 4 broke, at lead it might have been0, for aught you 4 can prove by any Witneiles that were prefent upon 4 that Occaiion. i p. 225-. The two principal Appetites which difappointed can ftir up 2his laft named Pailion ( Anger) are Hunger and Lnjl. And again) p. 226'. What we call Prowefs or natural Courage in Creatures, is nothing but the £fFe£l of Anger, and that all fierce Animals muft be either very ravenous ©r very luftful, if not both. Let us now examine what by this Rule we ought to judge of our own Species. m P. 226. n P. 16y. The Reverend Divines of allSe&s, even of the mod reformed Churches in all Countries, take care with the Cyclops Evangeliphorus, Firft, Ut ventri bene fit; and afterwards, nt quid deft iis q»& fub ventre funt. The Reader perhaps will defrt to know who this Cyclops Evangeliphorus was, that the Authpr mentions to Englifhmen, as familiarly as he would the Names of Robin Hood* or Sir John FalftafF. He muft know then that Cannius and Polyphemus are the two Perfons, in one of Erafmus’* Colloquies. This Poly¬ phemus had the Gofpel in his Hand, when his Acquaintance met him; and Cannius knowing that his way of Life was not very agreeable to the Precepts of it, tells him in ridicule, that he Jhould not any longer be called Polyphemus, but Evangeliophorus, pro Polyphemo dicendus eft Evangeliophorus, as one before had been tailed Chriftophorus. The Colloquy it felf (becanfe Polyphe¬ mus happens to be the Name of one of the Cyclopes ) is entituled, Cyclops, Jive Evangeliophorus. Our Author, not content with this, tacks them both to¬ gether, and calls him, by a fmall Miftake ( excufable enough in the writing fo long a Word) Cyclops Evangeliphorus, inftead of Evangeliophorus. Words that fill the Month very well, and which he feems to have put together for the Edification of thofe, who, with the old Fellow in Love makes the Man, ho¬ nour the Sound of Greek. op, 33. This was (or at leaft might have been) the manner after which lavage Man was broke. F 2 \