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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1714-1727.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (52p. )

Other Title:

Dumb philosopher

Place of Publication:

Dublin : printed and sold by Tho. Hume, next Door to the Walsh's-Head in Smock Alley, 1720.

Notes:

Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Chalmers, Wilson, Lee, Trent, Hutchins, Moore, Novak ("not certainly")). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N9033.

OCLC:

642232838