Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe: Containing a Review of His Writings, and His Opinions Upon a Variety of Important Matters, Civil and Ecclesiastical, Volume 1Hurst, Chance, and Company, 1830 |
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... never unseasonable to recal the attention of mankind to such subjects , it may be observed , that no man who sits down to study the history of his country with minute exactness , can hope for satisfaction upon a variety of points ...
... never unseasonable to recal the attention of mankind to such subjects , it may be observed , that no man who sits down to study the history of his country with minute exactness , can hope for satisfaction upon a variety of points ...
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... never before printed . London . 1705 . 8vo . 71. Party Tyranny : or , An Occasional Bill in Miniature ; as now Prac- tised in Carolina . Humbly offered to the Consideration of both Houses of Parliament , London . 1705. 4to . 72. Advice ...
... never before printed . London . 1705 . 8vo . 71. Party Tyranny : or , An Occasional Bill in Miniature ; as now Prac- tised in Carolina . Humbly offered to the Consideration of both Houses of Parliament , London . 1705. 4to . 72. Advice ...
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... never be United in the Person of the Emperor . By the Author of the Review . London . J. Baker . 1711. 8vo . 129. An Essay on the History of Parties and Persecution in Britain . Beginning with a Brief Account of the Test Act , and an ...
... never be United in the Person of the Emperor . By the Author of the Review . London . J. Baker . 1711. 8vo . 129. An Essay on the History of Parties and Persecution in Britain . Beginning with a Brief Account of the Test Act , and an ...
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... Never made public before . London . E. Nutt . 1722. 8vo . 180. Remarks on Febrifugum Magnum , wrote by the Reverend Dr. Han- cocke , for the General Good of Mankind . London . 1722. 8vo . 181. Flagellum ; or , a Dry Answer to Dr ...
... Never made public before . London . E. Nutt . 1722. 8vo . 180. Remarks on Febrifugum Magnum , wrote by the Reverend Dr. Han- cocke , for the General Good of Mankind . London . 1722. 8vo . 181. Flagellum ; or , a Dry Answer to Dr ...
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... never Sailed before . Being a Voyage undertaken by some Merchants , who afterwards pro- posed the setting up an East India Company in Flanders . Illustrated with Copper Plates . London . A. Bettes worth . 1725. 8vo . 188. Every - Body's ...
... never Sailed before . Being a Voyage undertaken by some Merchants , who afterwards pro- posed the setting up an East India Company in Flanders . Illustrated with Copper Plates . London . A. Bettes worth . 1725. 8vo . 188. Every - Body's ...
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Page 280 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page xxxix - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Page 134 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Page xxx - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
Page 345 - These are the heroes that despise the Dutch, And rail at new-come foreigners so much ; Forgetting that themselves are all derived From the most scoundrel race that ever lived...
Page 345 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Page 345 - The climate may this modern breed have mended, Wise Providence, to keep us where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding care: We have been Europe's sink, the Jakes where she Voids all her offal outcast progeny.
Page 65 - Queen Mary, as now in our days. When God has given us a Prince, who is become (may I Kay a miracle) zealous of being the author and instrument of so glorious a work ; but the opposition we are sure to meet with, is also like to be great : so that it imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can, for the harvest is great, and the labourers but few.
Page 100 - Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Page xxxix - 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.