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Author Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Title The dumb philosopher, or, Great Britain's wonder : containing I.A faithful and very surprizing account how Dickory Cronke, a tinner's son in the county of Cornwal, 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, 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 Coll. in Oxford ; with an epitaph by another hand.

Publication Info. London : Printed for Tho. Bickerton ..., 1719.

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Description 1 online resource (59 pages).
Series Daniel Defoe anthology
Daniel Defoe anthology.
BiblioBoard Core module.
Note Probably fictitious. Cf. Moore, J.R. Defoe (422).
Published anonymously. By Defoe. Cf. Morgan (T300).
Original document: Book.
Summary Written by 18th-century author Daniel Defoe, this account of the life of Cornishman Dickory Cronke may or may not be based on fact.
Note GMD: electronic resource.
Subject Cronke, Dickory, 1660-1718.
Conduct of life.
Great Britain -- History -- Prophecies.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1714-1727.
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