Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 to 1729, Volume 1

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J. C. Hotten, 1869
 

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Pagina 357 - Religious Courtship: being Historical Discourses on the Necessity of marrying Religious Husbands and Wives only ; as also of Husbands and Wives being of the same Opinions in Religion with one another.
Pagina 290 - The Story is told with Modesty, with Seriousness, and with a religious Application of Events to the Uses to which wise Men always apply them (viz) to the Instruction of others by this Example, and to justify and honour the Wisdom of Providence in all the Variety of our Cirumstances, let them happen how they will.
Pagina 67 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth : was born in London, and for many years was a hose-factor in Freeman's Yard, in Cornhill ; and now is owner of the brick and pantile works near Tilbury Fort in Essex...
Pagina 416 - The History of the Principal Discoveries and Improvements in the several Arts and Sciences; particularly the great branches of Commerce, Navigation, and Plantation, in all parts of the known World. London : printed for W.
Pagina xlviii - A Narrative of the Proceedings in France, for Discovering and Detecting the Murderers of the English Gentlemen, September 21, 1723, Near Calais. With an Account of the Condemnation and Sentence of Joseph Bizeau and Peter Le Febvre, Two Notorious Robbers, who were the principal Actors in the said Murder ; particularly in the Killing Mr. Lock. Together with their Discovery and manner of perpetrating that execrable Murder ; and also large Memoirs of their Behaviour during their Torture, and upon the...
Pagina xxxii - The Experiment: or, the Shortest Way with the Dissenters Exemplified. Being the case of Mr. Abraham Gill, a Dissenting Minister in the Isle of Ely. And a Full Account of his being sent for a Soldier, by Mr. Fern (an Ecclesiastical Justice of the Peace), and other Conspirators. To the Eternal Honour of the Temper and Moderation of High-Church Principles. Humbly Dedicated to the Queen.
Pagina xlv - The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. DUNCAN CAMPBELL, a Gentleman, who though Deaf and Dumb, writes down any Stranger's Name at first sight, with their future contingencies of Fortune. Now living in Exeter Court, over against the Savoy in the Strand.
Pagina 400 - The Complete English Tradesman, In Familiar Letters, Directing him in all the several Parts and Progressions of Trade— viz.
Pagina 13 - But, to my irreparable loss, I was bred only by halves ; for my father, forgetting Juno's royal academy, left the language of Billingsgate quite out of my education. Hence I am perfectly illiterate in the polite style of the street, and am not fit to converse with the porters and carmen of quality, who grace their diction with the beauties of calling names, and cursing their neighbour with a bonne grace.
Pagina 304 - The centre of the jobbing is in the kingdom of Exchange Alley and its adjacencies. The limits are easily surrounded in about a minute and a half, viz., stepping out of Jonathan's into the Alley, you turn your face full south; moving on a few paces, and then turning due east you advance to Garraway's ; from thence going out at the other door, you go on still east into...

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