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• Opus Sadicum: A Philosophical Romance, for the First Time Translated from the Original French (translated version of Justine, with an early title page; Paris: I. Liseux, 1889), by marquis de Sade, trans. by Isidore Liseux
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• Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded, by Samuel Richardson (Gutenberg text)
• Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded, in a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young damsel to her parents: afterwards, in her exalted condition, between her, and persons of figure and quality, upon the most important and entertaining subjects, in genteel life ... (Printed at the Shakespeare head Press and Pub. for the Press by B. Blackwell, Oxford, 1929), by Samuel Richardson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La divine comédie (Garnier, 1879), by Dante Alighieri, Yan Dargent, and Artaud de Montor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pamela vainottuna (in Finnish), by Samuel Richardson, trans. by Väinö Hämeen-Anttila (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pamela, Volume II, by Samuel Richardson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Casos raros de vicios y virtudes : para escarmiento de pecadores, y exemplo de virtuosos ([s.n.], 1804), by Juan Laguna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Julian Home : a tale of college life (Adam and Charles Black, 1859), by F. W. Farrar and Adam and Charles Black (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The God in the Car: A Novel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1894), by Anthony Hope
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• The World We Live In (c1944), by Louis Bromfield (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Fine Feathers, by George O. Smith, illust. by Frank Kramer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830, by Stendhal, trans. by Horace Barnett Samuel (Gutenberg ebook)

• Il lampionaio (in Italian), by Maria S. Cummins (Gutenberg ebook)
• I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success, by A. S. Roe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lamplighter, by Maria S. Cummins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Persevere, and you must succeed, or, The history of Mary Smith (London: Published by the Christian Tract Society :, 1851), by Richard Kinder, John Chapman, and Christian Tract Society (page images at Florida)

• Lettice, by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg ebook)

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• For That I Came: Virtues and Ideals of Jesuit Education (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1997), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)
• Fundamental Moral Attitudes, by Dietrich Von Hildebrand, trans. by Alice Von Hildebrand (HTML at EWTN)
• The fable of the bees: or, Private vices, publick benefits. (Clarendon Press, 1924), by Bernard Mandeville and Frederick Benjamin Kaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fable of the bees; or, Private vices, publick benefits (Capricorn Books, 1962), by Bernard Mandeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private vices, public benefits (printed for J. Tolson, 1728), by Bernard Mandeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded, in a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young damsel to her parents: afterwards, in her exalted condition, between her, and persons of figure and quality, upon the most important and entertaining subjects, in genteel life ... (Printed at the Shakespeare head Press and Pub. for the Press by B. Blackwell, Oxford, 1929), by Samuel Richardson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The world unmask'd: or, The philosopher the greatest cheat; in twenty-four dialogues between Crito a philosopher, Philo a lawyer, and Erastus, a merchant. In which true virtue is distinguished from what usually bears the name or resemblance of it: the many prejudices and mistakes in judgment and practice, in regard to conscience and religion, are examined and rectified ... To which is added, The state of souls separated from their bodies ... in answer to a treatise, entitled, An enquiry into Origenism. Together with a large introduction, evincing the same truth from the principles of natural religion (Printed for A. Millar, 1736), by Marie Huber and Béat Louis de Muralt (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the notion of virtue in the dialogues of Plato. (Ginn & company, 1892), by William A. Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of virtue. (Printed for B. Tooke, 1690), by Henry More and Edward Southwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on The fable of the bees. (Printed at the University press, for D. & A. Macmillan, 1844), by William Law, Bernard Mandeville, and Frederick Denison Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nature of true virtue. (University of Michigan Press, 1960), by Jonathan Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virtues; the eternal essence and form of religion ... (Society for religious education, 1923), by Louis Francis Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teaching the Christian virtues. (Bruce Pub. Co., 1952), by W. H. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• An activity analysis of the four cardinal virtues suggested by the writings of St. Thomas (Washington, D. C., 1929), by Cyprian Florian Mensing (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the origin of evil. (Printed for W. Thurlbourn bookseller in Cambridge; and sold by R. Knaplock, J. and J. Knapton, and W. Innis in St. Paul's Church-Yard London, 1731), by William King and John Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mandevilles Bienenfabel (G. Müller, 1914), by Bernard Mandeville and Otto Bobertag (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on the nature and obligations of virtue (Printed by J. Bentham, for W. Thurlbourn, 1744), by T. Rutherforth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Platonis Dialogi IV : Meno, Crito, Alcibiades uterque (Sumtibus Augusti Mylii, 1790), by Plato and Johann Erich Biester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Livre de tous les âges. (Chez Léopold Collin, 1807), by Sylvain Maréchal and Sylvain Maréchal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogoi treis (Excudit Franciscus Halma, ordinum Frisiæ typographus, 1718), by Socraticus Aeschines, François Halma, and Petrus Horreus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The immutable right ; an oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Brown University, Aug. 31, 1858 ... (Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1859), by Andrew P. Peabody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practice of perfection and Christian virtues (Loyola University Press, 1929), by Alfonso Rodríguez and Joseph Rickaby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fable of the bees, or, Private vices, public benefits. : With An essay on charity and charity schools, and a search into the nature of society. Also, a vindication of the book from the aspersions contained in a presentment of the Grand jury of Middlesex, and an abusive letter to Lord C---. (C. Bathurst [etc.], 1795), by Bernard Mandeville and Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fable of the bees. (Printed by J. Tonson, 1729), by Bernard Mandeville, Jacob Tonson, and Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comfort and exercise; an essay toward normal conduct. (Small, Maynard, 1900), by Mary Perry King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The homely virtues. [2d. ed.] (Hodder & Stoughton, 1904), by Ian Maclaren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beauties of history; or, Pictures of virtue and vice, drawn from real life; designed for the instruction and entertainment of youth (Printed for Cadell and Davies, [etc.], 1815), by L. M. Stretch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quality of facility in the moral virtues (The Catholic university of America, 1946), by Robert Florent Coerver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Know yourself ... (University of San Francisco press, 1939), by Joseph Malaise (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on virtue and happiness. (Printed for J. Payne, and J. Bouquet, in Pater-noster-row., 1751), by Thomas Nettleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original virtue, and other short studies (Longmans, Green, 1907), by S. Levy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The nobility of life : its graces and virtues (London : Frederick Warne and Company, Bedford Street, Covent Garden ; New York : Scribner, Welford, and Co., 1869., 1869), by L. Valentine, John Baptist Zwecker, Thomas Waterman Wood, Joseph Wolf, John Dawson Watson, Francis Sylvester Walker, William Shakespeare, Thomas. Scott, Martin Luther, Henry Le Jeune, Philip Hundley, Arthur Boyd Houghton, Charles Green, Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel, William Cowper, Charles West Cope, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edwin Buckman, Francis Bacon, Welford Scribner, James Burn & Company, Frederick Warne (Firm), Dalziel Brothers, and Camden Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noble words and noble deeds (Sampson, 1877), by Dora Leigh and Félix Emmanuel Henri Philippoteaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Walton and Mr. Tracy. (Anson D.F. Randolph, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fable of the bees : or, private vices, publick benefits : With an essay on charity and charity-schools ... (T. Ostell, & Mundell, Edinburgh, 1806), by Bernard Mandeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plato's Ansichten über die Tugend (Paul Schmidt's Buchdruckerei, 1881), by Hermann Scheiding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quantum religio apud Graecos ad virtutis studium moderandum valuerit (Wilh. Staritz, Universitätsbuchdr., 1838), by W. J. Hempel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die dianoetischen Tugenden in der Nikomachischen Ethik des Aristoteles (Christian Kaiser, 1852), by Carl Prantl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Platos Ansichten über die Tugend Th. 1 (Buch- und Steindruckerei, 1880), by H. Scheiding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Platonis de virtute doctrina (Anton Hofer, 1845), by Wassmuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Meno of Plato (Clarendon Press, 1904), by Plato and St. George Stock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Platons dialog Menon; oder, Über die tugend (Meiner, 1914), by Plato and Otto Apelt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wie verhalt sich der tugendbegriff bei Schleiermacher zu dem Platonischen ... (Haller, 1873), by Jay Ess (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fable of the bees: or; Private vices, public benefits. (Printed for J. Wood, 1772), by Bernard Mandeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theagēs, Peri dikaiou, Peri aretēs (Ekdot. Oikos Geōrgiou D. Phexē, 1911), by S. Limperopoulos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fable of the bees (Printed for J. Tonson ..., 1725), by Bernard Mandeville, Jerome Kern, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Jacob Tonson, Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library), and Riviere & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• The seven cardinal virtues (American Tract Society, 1902), by James Stalker and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le diece veglie di Bartolomeo Arnigio, de gli ammendati costvmi dell' hvmana vita, nelle quali non sol si tratta di quelle vertù, ch'à uiuer nella luce de gli huomini, & di Dio bisogneuoli sono. (Francesco, & Pietro Maria fratelli de' Marchetti, 1577), by Bartolomeo Arnigio (page images at HathiTrust)
• La metafisica dei costumi. Pt. IIa.: La dottrina della virtù. (Speroni, 1911), by Immanuel Kant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The immutable right : an oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Brown University, Aug. 31, 1858 (Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1858), by Andrew P. Peabody and Phi Beta Kappa. Alpha of Rhode Island (Brown University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La voz de la virtud. Obra moral, escrita por el teniente graduado Alferez de la primera seccion de milicias disciplinadas de color de esta ciudad. (Impr. Militar, 1868), by José Campos Gimenez (page images at HathiTrust)
• The looking-glass for the mind : a reprint of the 1792 edition, with the original illustrations by Bewick (Griffith, Farran, Okeden and Welsh ... ;, 1885), by M. Berquin, John Bewick, and Charles Welsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libellus de virtutibus. (Georgii Josephi, 1864), by Saint Albertus Magnus and Johann Michael Sailer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato di virtù morali (G. Romagnoli, 1865), by Roberto De Visiani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mandevilles Bienenfabel (Georg Müller, 1914), by Bernard Mandeville and Otto Bobertag (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The fable of the bees (T. Ostell; [etc., etc.], 1806), by Bernard Mandeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral gallantry: a discourse, addresses to the nobility and gentry of Great Britain. (T. Hamilton; [etc., etc.], 1821), by George Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The five redeemers (H.H. Carter & Co., 1890), by M. J. Barnett and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemählde der Tugend. (In der Hilscherschen Buchhandlung, 1775), by Christian Gottfried Assmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature of true virtue (Printed by W. Oliver, 1778), by Jonathan Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fable of the bees: or, Private vices, publick benefits. (Printed for J. Tonson, 1728), by Bernard Mandeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• La fable des abeilles, ou, Les fripons devenus honnestes gens : avec le commentaire, où l'on prouve que les vices des particuliers tendent à l'avantage du public (Chez J. Nourse, 1750), by Bernard Mandeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pitture del Doni, academico pellegrino, nelle quali si mostra di nuova inventione (Appresso Gratioso Perchacino, 1564), by Anton Francesco Doni (page images at HathiTrust)
• De tous les ouvrages dont le but est d'inculquer aux enfans les principes qui constituent l'honnête homme il n'en est peut être aucun qui mérite plus notre approbation que ceux de l'inimitable Amis des enfans .. (s.n., 1807), by Jacques Labrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophie de Saint Thomas. (P. Lethielleux, 1901), by J. Gardair (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sermon, preached at the annual election, May 26, 1830, before His Excellency Levi Lincoln, governor, His Honor Thomas L. Winthrop, lieutenant governor, the honorable Council, and the legislature of Massachusetts. (Dutton and Wentworth, printers to the state, 1830), by William Ellery Channing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The will and virtue : two essays (F.H. Revell, 1882), by George Nye Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fable of the bees; or, Private vices, public benefits. (London, 1806), by Bernard Mandeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nature and obligation of virtue : a sermon preached in the Parish-Church of St. Chad, Salop, at the primary visitation of the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, and published at his Lordship's request : with an appendix, containing notes on the same subject (Printed by E. Say ..., 1754), by William Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourses on the deceitfulness of humane virtues. (Printed for A. Bell [etc.], 1981), by Mr. Esprit, François La Rochefoucauld, and William Beauvoir (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• S. Thomae Aquinatis Quaestiones disputate ad fidem optimarum editionum. (Sumptibus P. Lethielleux, 1925), by Saint Thomas Aquinas and Pierre Mandonnet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vera sapientia or true wisdom (R & T Washbourne, 1904), by Thomas à Kempis and Frederick Byrne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ʻIlm al-akhlāq ilá Nīqūmākhūs (880-03 al-Qāhirah : Maṭbaʻat Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīyah, 1343 H. = 1924 M., 1924), by Aristotle, Aḥmad Luṭfī Sayyid, and J. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The History of crazy Jane : an affecting tale. (Printed and sold by J. Turner, 1700) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general treatise of morality, form'd upon the principles of natural reason only : with a preface in answer to two essays lately published in the Fable of the bees : and some incidental remarks upon an Inquiry concerning virtue, by the Right Honourable Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury (London : Printed for S. Billingsley ..., 1724., 1724), by Richard Fiddes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saint Madeleine Sophie ([publisher not identified], 1925), by Madeleine-Sophie Barat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Free thoughts in defence of a future state, as discoverable by natural reason, and stript of all superstitious appendages ... with occasional remarks on a book intituled, An inquiry concerning virtue, and a refutation of the reviv'd Hylozoicism of Democritus and Leucippus. (London : Printed for Dan. Brown ... and Andr. Bell ..., 1700), by Robert Day (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions of divers learned and reverend brethren / by Richard Baxter ... (London : Printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons ... and are to be sold by him ... and by Nathaniel Elkins ..., 1658), by Richard Baxter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The divine Epicurus, or, The empire of pleasure over the vertues compos'd by A. LeGrand ; and rendred into English by Edward Cooke. (London : Printed by H. Bruges for M. Widdows, 1676), by Antoine Le Grand and Edward Cooke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A moral paradox maintaining, that it is much easier to be vertuous then vitious / by Sir George Mackeinzie. (Edinburgh : Printed for Robert Broun ..., 1667), by George Mackenzie (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The absurdity and blasphemy of depretiating moral virtue: a sermon preached at the West-Church in Boston, June 18th. 1749. / By Lemuel Briant, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Braintree. ; [Eight lines of Scipture texts] (Boston: : Printed by J. Green for D. Gookin, in Marlborough-Street., 1749), by Lemuel Briant (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Two dissertations, I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The nature of true virtue. / by the late Reverend, learned and pious Jonathan Edwards, A.M. president of the College in New-Jersey. (Boston: : Printed and sold by S. Kneeland, opposite to the probate-office in Queen-Street., M,DCC,LXV [1765]), by Jonathan Edwards (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Remarks on President Edwards's dissertations concerning the nature of true virtue: shewing that he has given a wrong idea, and definition of virtue, and is inconsistent with himself. : To which is added, an attempt to shew wherein true virtue does consist. / By William Hart, Pastor of the First Church in Say-brook. ; [Four lines of Scripture texts] (New-Haven: : Printed and sold by T. and S. Green., 1771), by William Hart (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The moral and religious miscellany; or, Sixty-one aphoretical essays, on some of the most important Christian doctrines and virtues. By Hugh Knox, D.D. in St. Croix. ; [Seven lines of quotations in Latin] (New-York: : Printed by Hodge and Shober., M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]), by Hugh Knox (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Aquinas on Virtue: A Causal Reading (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2017), by Nicholas Austin (JSTOR ebook)

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