1725 CHARITY SCHOOLS DEFENDED; AN ANSWER TO THE FABLE OF THE BEES 025. HENDLEY, William. A defence of the Charity-Schools. Wherein the may false, scandalous and malicious objections of those advocates for ignorance and irreligion, the author of The Fable of the Bees, and Cato's Letter in the British Journal, June 15. 1723. are fully and distinctly answer'd; and the usefulness and excellency of such schools clearly set forth. To which is added by way of an appendix, the presentment of the Grand Jury of the British Journal, at their meeting at Westminster, July 3. 1723. London. Printed for W. Means. 1725. 4to. [8],125,[1]p. Rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, vellum tips. A very nice copy. L, Lu, O; MH-BA. in ESTC. Not in HANSON. KRESS 3603. GOLDSMITHS 614. William Hendley, (1690 or 91 - 1724). A sustained answer to The Fable of the Bees, by Bernard de Mandeville. "But why must it be deemed distraction to take care of the Poor? Where is the Enthusiasm in providing for helpless Orphans? It has always been reckon'd Wisdom and Policy in a nation to have as few Beggars, and idel Strollers about the Streets as possible. And how is this so effectually prevented as by these Schools, where while they are Children they are kept from being a nuisance to the publick, and taught, when grown up, to be serviceable to it?"