Mandeville
Bernard de [duh], /də/, c1670–1733, English physician and satirist, born in Holland.
Sir John, died 1372, English compiler of a book of travels.
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Viscount Mandeville, like many British aristocrats, had met her in the U.S. while “hunting” for an American wife.
The Real-Life ‘Downton’ Millionairesses Who Changed Britain | Tim Teeman | December 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe mascots of the London Olympics, named Wenlock and Mandeville.
The gout is a standard comic disease which Mandeville gives to his lion to make him comically undignified.
Aesop Dress'd | Bernard MandevilleThe characterizing details of some of the great fables, however, disappear in Mandeville's English.
Aesop Dress'd | Bernard MandevilleIt is not surprising that many of the fables which Mandeville chose to translate anticipate the themes of his great work.
Aesop Dress'd | Bernard Mandeville
We used especially to open our minds, la Mandeville, on the hollowness of human virtue.
Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. | Solomon MaimonBut neither of these writers have quoted the testimony of Sir John Mandeville, which is, however, well worth notice.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
British Dictionary definitions for Mandeville
/ (ˈmændəvɪl) /
Bernard de. ?1670–1733, English author, born in Holland, noted for his satire The Fable of the Bees (1723)
Sir John. 14th century, English author of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The book claims to be an account of the author's journeys in the East but is largely a compilation from other works
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