An Alphabetical Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of the Writings of Daniel Defoe and of Different Publications for and Against that Very Extraordinary Writer

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Whitmore and Fenn, 1829 - 47 pages
 

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Page 8 - 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 delivered by PIRATES. Written by Himself.
Page 42 - 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, which apparition recommends the perusal of Drelincourt's book of ' Consolations against the fears of Death.
Page 33 - 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.
Page 4 - Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother) Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent, Written from her own Memorandums.
Page 9 - The political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern. In two Parts. Part. I. Containing a State of the Devil's Circumstances, and the Various Turns of his Affairs, from his Expulsion out of Heaven, to the Creation of Man; with Remarks on the several Mistakes concerning the Reason and Manner of his Fall. Also his proceedings with Mankind, ever since Adam, to the first Planting of the Christian Religion in the World. Part II. Contaming his more private conduct down to the present Times. His...
Page 31 - Charities. Together with a Practicable Proposal for amending the same ; which will not only take off great Part of the Parish Taxes now subsisting, but ease Parishioners from serving troublesome Offices, or paying exorbitant Fines. By Andrew Moreton, Esq.
Page 3 - An Essay on the history and reality of Apparitions ; being an account of what they are, and what they are not; whence they come, and whence they come not; as also how we may distinguish between the apparitions of good and evil spirits, and how we ought to behave to them.
Page 15 - Account, how Dickory Cronke, a Tinner's Son, in the County of Cornwall, was born Dumb, and continued so for 58 years ; and how, some Days before he Died, he came to his Speech. With Memoirs of his Life, and the manner of his Death. II. A Declaration of his Faith and Principles in Religion : With a Collection of Select Meditations composed in his Retirement. III. His Prophetical Observations upon the Affairs of Europe, more particularly of Great Britain, from 1720 to 1729.
Page 38 - 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.
Page 23 - The Judgment of whole Kingdoms and Nations concerning the Rights, Power and Prerogative of Kings, and the Rights, Privileges and Properties of the People, &c.

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