Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies E-Book

Daniel Defoe

• Herausgeber: Krill Press
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Seitenzahl: 26

Beschreibung

Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) was a prolific English writer who became one of the first Western writers to write novels and turn them into a sought after literary genre. During his life, Defoe wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on topics as wide ranging as politics, crime, religion, psychology, supernatural events, and even economics.

While those are all impressive accomplishments, Defoe’s name has lived on through Robinson Crusoe, one of the first and finest novels ever written. The book is written as a fictional autobiography of Robinson Crusoe, a castaway who spends nearly 30 years on a tropical island, where he encounters all kinds of danger and adventures. Published in the early 18th century, the novel may have been inspired by a real Scottish castaway, Alexander Selkirk, who lived for nearly 5 years on a Pacific Island. That island’s name has since been changed to Robinson Crusoe Island. Robinson Crusoe was a stark departure from the typical literature of the day, which was still based on ancient mythology, legends, and history.

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SECOND THOUGHTS ARE BEST: OR A FURTHER IMPROVEMENT OF A LATE SCHEME TO PREVENT STREET ROBBERIES

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Daniel Defoe

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

STREET ROBBERIES:

With

Humbly

By Andrew Moreton, Esq.: LONDON:

TO THE: KING’S: Most Excellent: MAJESTY,: SACRED AND MOST AUGUST!

THE PREFACE.

SECOND THOUGHTS, &c.

Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies

By

Daniel Defoe

Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies

Published by Dossier Press

New York City, NY

First published circa 1731

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STREET ROBBERIES:

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OUR STREETS WILL BE STRONGLY guarded, and so gloriously illuminated, that any part of London will be as safe and pleasant at Midnight as at Noonday; and Burglary totally impracticable:

WITH

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Some Thoughts for suppressing Robberies in all the Public Roads of England, &c.

HUMBLY

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OFFERED FOR THE GOOD OF his Country, submitted to the Consideration of the Parliament, and dedicated to his sacred Majesty King George II.

BY ANDREW MORETON, ESQ.: LONDON:

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PRINTED FOR W. MEADOWS, AT the Angel in Cornhill; and sold by J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane. 1729.

[Price Six Pence.

TO THE: KING’S: MOST EXCELLENT: MAJESTY,: SACRED AND MOST AUGUST!

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PERMIT A LOYAL SUBJECT, IN the sincerity of his heart, to press through the crowds of courtiers who surround your royal person, and lay his little mite, humbly offered for the public welfare, at your majesty’s feet.