The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the MoonDefoe, Daniel
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The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon
Defoe, Daniel
Fantasy fiction; Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction; Moon -- Fiction; Political fiction; Satire
Running away the shortest way to Victory, being a large Dissertation,
shewing to save the Queens Ships, is the best way to beat the French.
The Tookites, a Poem upon the 134.
A new Tract upon Trade, being a Demonstration that to be always
putting the People upon customary Mourning, and wearing Black upon
every State Occasion, is an excellent Encouragement to Trade, and a
means to employ the Poor.
City Gratitude, being a Poem on the Statue erected by the Court of
Aldermen at the upper end of Cheapside, to the Immortal Memory of
King William.
There were many more Tracts to be found in this place; but these may
suffice for a Specimen, and to excite all Men that would encrease
their Understandings in humane Mysteries, to take a Voyage to this
enlightned Country. Where their Memories, thinking Faculties and
Penetration, will no question be so Tackt and Consolidated, that when
they return, they all Write Memoirs of the Place, and communicate to
their Country the Advantages they have reapt by their Voyage,
according to the laudable Example of their
Most humble Servant,
The Man in the Moon.
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