Introd., chap. X, § xm ; Bowring, vol. I, p

149. Ibid. — Cf. Adam Smith, neory of Moral Sentiments, Part. VII, sect. n : The ingenious sophistry of bis (Mandeville's) reasoning is hère, as upon many other occasions, covered by the ambiguity of language. There

are some of our passions which hâve no other names except those which mark the disagreable and offensive degree. The spectator is more apt to take notice of them in this degree than in any other.