The Dumb Philosopher:

In Three Parts, &c

1719

Daniel Defoe


The Preface

Containing:

  1. A faithful and very surprising Account how DICKORY CRONKE, a Tinner’s son, in the County of Cornwall, 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.
  2. A Declaration of his Faith and Principles in Religion; with a Collection of Select Meditations, composed in his Retirement.
  3. 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 for and Sold by Thomas Bickerton, at the Crown, in Pater Noster Row. 1719.


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