Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
142. The Dumb Philosopher; or, Great Britain's Wonder. Containing.--I.
A Faithful and very surprising Account of Dickory Cronke, a Tinner's
Son, in the County of Cornwall, who was born Dumb, and continued so
for fifty-eight 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. The whole
extracted from his Original Papers, and confirmed by unquestionable
authority. To which is annexed his Elegy, written by a young Cornish
Gentleman of Exeter College, in Oxford; with an Epitaph by another
hand. 'Non quis, sed quid?' London: printed by Thomas Bickerton, at
the Crown, in Paternoster-row. 1719. Price 1s. 8vo. pp. 64.
143. The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies of the famous Captain
Singleton, containing an Account of his being set on Shore in the
Island of Madagascar, his Settlement there, with a Description of
the Place and Inhabitants; of his Passage from thence in a Paraquay
to the Main Land of Africa, with an Account of the Customs and
Manners of the People, his great Deliverances from the barbarous
Natives and wild Beasts; of his meeting with an Englishman, a
Citizen of London, among the Indians; the great Riches he acquired,
and his Voyage home to England; as also Captain Singleton's Return
to Sea, with an Account of his many Adventures and Pyracies with the
famous Captain Avery and others. 8vo. London: printed for J.
Brotherton, at the Black Bull, in Cornhill; T. Graves, in St.
James's-street; A. Dodd, at the Peacock, without Temple Bar; and T.
Warner, at the Black Boy, in Paternoster-row. 1720. 8vo. pp. 360.
144. Serious Reflections during the Life and surprising Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe. With his Vision of the Angelic World. Written by
Himself. London: printed for W. Taylor. 1722. 8vo. pp. 354.
145. 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.
London: printed for E. Curll, and sold by W. Meers, &c. 1720. 8vo.
pp. 320.
146. The Complete Art of Painting, a Poem; translated from the French
of M. Du Fresnoy. By D. F., Gentleman. London: printed for T.
Warner. 1720. Price 1s. 8vo. pp. 54.
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