biography
| name: |
Mandeville, Bernard de
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pronunciation:
[mandevil]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1670–1733)
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| biography:
| Physician and satirist, born in Dort, The Netherlands. He trained as a doctor at Leyden in 1691, and settled in London in medical practice. He is known as the author of a short work in doggerel verse originally entitled The Grumbling Hive (1705), and reissued as The Fable of the Bees (1714), designed to illustrate the essential evil in human nature. The book was condemned by the grand jury of Middlesex. |
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