Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe: Containing a Review of His Writings, and His Opinions Upon a Variety of Important Matters, Civil and Ecclesiastical, المجلد 3Hurst, Chance, 1830 |
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الصفحة 438 - Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
الصفحة 430 - The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it...
الصفحة 400 - For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. "Report," say they, "and we will report it." All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, " Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
الصفحة 517 - De Foe would have deserved immortality for the genius which he has displayed in this work, as well as in the Memoirs of a Cavalier.
الصفحة 564 - A System of Magick ; or, a History of the Black Art. Being an Historical Account of Mankind's most early Dealing with the Devil; and how the Acquaintance on both sides first began.
الصفحة 439 - Fact; and do affirm, that the Story, though Allegorical, is also Historical; and that it is the beautiful Representation of a Life of unexampled Misfortunes, and of a Variety not to be met with in the World, sincerely adapted to, and intended for the common Good of Mankind, and designed at first, as it is now farther apply 'd, to the most serious Uses possible.
الصفحة 491 - ... tis hoped, will keep the reader serious, even where the story might incline him to be otherwise. To give the history of a wicked life repented of, necessarily requires that the wicked part should be made as wicked as the real history of it will bear, to illustrate and give a beauty to the penitent part, which is certainly the best and brightest, if related with equal spirit and life.
الصفحة 425 - States, do hereby constitute and appoint . my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name...
الصفحة 429 - 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 deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
الصفحة 307 - I shall observe again by-and-by, this was one of the greatest pieces of injustice that could be done me, and which I labour still under without any redress ; that whenever any piece comes out which is not liked, I am immediately charged with being the author; and very often the first knowledge I have had of a book being published, has been from seeing myself abused for being the author of it, in some other pamphlet published in answer to it.