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Pagina xix
... charge , that De Foe penned his well - known poem of The True - born Englishman ' - a satire , which , if written in doggrel verse , and without the wit or pleasantry of Butler's ' Hudibras , ' is a masterpiece of good sense and just ...
... charge , that De Foe penned his well - known poem of The True - born Englishman ' - a satire , which , if written in doggrel verse , and without the wit or pleasantry of Butler's ' Hudibras , ' is a masterpiece of good sense and just ...
Pagina xx
... charge in The Villany of Stock - jobbers Detected , and the Cause of the late Run upon the Bank and Bankers Discovered and Considered . London : 1701. ' In this work he confines himself to the more immediate subjects of trade , and has ...
... charge in The Villany of Stock - jobbers Detected , and the Cause of the late Run upon the Bank and Bankers Discovered and Considered . London : 1701. ' In this work he confines himself to the more immediate subjects of trade , and has ...
Pagina xxxiii
... charge me with writing dis- respectfully of the Queen . I appeal to the book itself ; and as I really never did publish the least clause that way , so I think I never failed , either in verse or prose , to address her Majesty with all ...
... charge me with writing dis- respectfully of the Queen . I appeal to the book itself ; and as I really never did publish the least clause that way , so I think I never failed , either in verse or prose , to address her Majesty with all ...
Pagina xxxvii
... charge as little favourable to their morals , and sustains it in a variety of particulars as it regarded their behaviour to the Dissenters . Our author's next publication was a narrative of the fearful storm which arose in the night of ...
... charge as little favourable to their morals , and sustains it in a variety of particulars as it regarded their behaviour to the Dissenters . Our author's next publication was a narrative of the fearful storm which arose in the night of ...
Pagina xxxix
... charge that should be brought against him . That as soon as his business was over in the country , he made his ... charges brought against him . And further , having been informed , that Mr Robert Stephens , the messenger , had reported ...
... charge that should be brought against him . That as soon as his business was over in the country , he made his ... charges brought against him . And further , having been informed , that Mr Robert Stephens , the messenger , had reported ...
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acquaintance afterwards answer army asked began better bill brought called captain carried child circumstances coach desire discourse Dissenters door dragoons Duke Duke of Savoy enemy England English father favour Foe's fortune gave gentleman give governess hand Harwich heard High Church honest honour horse husband Jack justice kind king King of Sweden knew lady lived lodging London looked madam majesty manner married master mind Moll Flanders mother never Newgate night obliged occasion party person pieces of eight plantation poor pretended Prince prisoners racter regiment resolved Robinson Crusoe Saxony says Scotland sent servants ship short Sir John Hepburn sloop soldiers soon speak stood story taken talk tell things thought told took town trade Whigs whole wife woman word writings
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Pagina cl - ... for, after all my ruminating upon it, and what course I should take with it, or where I should put it, I could not hit upon any one thing, or any possible method to secure it, and it perplexed me so, that at last, as I said just now, I sat down and cried heartily. When my crying was over...
Pagina 73 - It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we here speak of is a little altered ; particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modester words than she told it at first, the copy which came first to hand having been written in language more like one still in Newgate than one grown penitent and humble, as she afterwards pretends to be.
Pagina 74 - But as this work is chiefly recommended to those who know how to read it, and how to make the good uses of it...
Pagina xix - The original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England examined and asserted...
Pagina xlv - Caledonia, &c. A Poem in Honour of Scotland, and the Scots Nation (1706a).
Pagina cl - I took that up, and wrapt it all together, and carried it in that a good way. I have often since heard people say, when they have been talking of money that they could not get in, I wish I had it in a foul clout...
Pagina lv - A New Test of the Sense of the Nation: Being a Modest Comparison between the ADDRESSES to the late King James, and those to her present Majesty. In order to observe how far the Sense of the Nation may be judged of by either of them.
Pagina xiii - He says, that one of his ancestors remembered De Foe, and sometimes saw him walking in the streets of Bristol, accoutred in the fashion of the times, with a fine flowing wig, lace ruffles, and a sword by his side. Also, that he there obtained the name of " The Sunday Gentleman," because, through fear of the bailiffs, he did not dare to appear in public upon any other day.
Pagina 96 - I had been tricked once by that cheat called love, but the game was over; I was resolved now to be married or nothing, and to be well married or not at all.
Pagina xi - Fenwick, they proceeded to enact several laws for regulating the domestic economy of the nation ; among others they passed an act for the more effectual relief of creditors in cases of escape, and for preventing abuses in prisons and pretended privileged places.