"Nature, industriously favourable to men, hath not bounded itself in giving desires to men, she was willing that we should have them too, and that we should be the animated instruments of their felicity: she hath put in us the flame of the passions, to make them live easy."
Persian Letters [Lettres persane]
12 entries in the ESTC for this title (1722, 1730, 1731, 1736, 1751, 1759, 1760, 1762, 1767, 1773, 1775).<br>
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The earliest English-language issue is <u>Persian Letters</u>, trans. John Ozell, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1722). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3305275439&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Searching <u>The Complete Works of M. de Montesquieu</u>, 4 vols. (London: T. Evans, 1777) at Online Library of Liberty &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1338/74623">Link to OLL</a>&gt;. French text from <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30268/30268-h/30268-h.htm">Project Gutenberg</a>.