It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

* 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer ( b. 1660 )

Daniel Defoe also wrote dismissively about Londoners who posted the word on their doorways to ward off sickness during the Great Plague of London.

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Daniel Defoe in the pillory, 1862 line engraving by James Charles Armytage after Eyre Crowe ( painter ) | Eyre Crowe

Thanks to books such as The Letters of Daniel Defoe ( edited by G. H. Healey, Oxford 1955 ), which are readily available, far more is known about his activities than is usual with such agents.

Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors.

* Daniel Defoe fiction at The Literature Network

* The Journeys of Daniel Defoe around Britain ( from a Vision of Britain )

* Life of Daniel Defoe at luminarium. org

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This position is sometimes referred to as eliminative materialism: the view that consciousness is a property that can be reduced to a strictly mechanical description, and that our experience of consciousness is, as Daniel Dennett describes it, a " user illusion ".

Petersen describes Daniel Malthus as " a gentleman of good family and independent means ... a friend of David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ".

Daniel Dennett describes this as the Three Mile Island effect.

They are protected by what Nebuchadnezzar describes as " the son of God " ( Daniel 3: 25 ) and emerge unscathed without even the smell of smoke.

W. Hamilton describes Chaucer, Gower, Kay, Andrew Bernard, John Skelton, Robert Whittington, Richard Edwards and Samuel Daniel as " volunteer Laureates ".

His character profile describes him as born in London on May 3 with the real name Daniel Starr.

Paul Scofield, as Lear, eschews sentimentality: this demanding old man with a coterie of unruly knights provokes audience sympathy for the daughters in the early scenes, and his presentation explicitly rejects the tradition ( as Daniel Rosenthal describes it ) of playing Lear as " poor old white-haired patriarch ".

Also, in August 2010 former Cuban president Fidel Castro wrote an article for the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma in which he cited Daniel Estulin ’ s 2006 book The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club, which, as quoted by Castro, describes " sinister cliques and the Bilderberg lobbyists " manipulating the public " to install a world government that knows no borders and is not accountable to anyone but its own self.

Its collaborators included poets such as José Agustín Goytisolo, politicians like Salvador Clotas, artists like Daniel Argimon and Joan Ponç, actresses like Serena Vergano, and, lastly, architects such as Anna Bofill, Peter H. Hodgkinson, Ramón Collado, Xavier Bagué, and Manuel Nuñez Yanovsky. The film is a study of the relationship between art and madness and describes the horror of the human condition – a mere instant between nothingness and nothingness.

Farnham became a successful market town ; the author Daniel Defoe wrote that Farnham had the greatest corn-market after London, and describes 1, 100 fully laden wagons delivering wheat to the town on market day.

The ISCA is praised by Daniel Pipes, who describes it as " relatively small ".

In his book Stumbling on Happiness, psychologist Daniel Gilbert describes research suggesting that money makes a significant difference to the poor ( where basic needs are not yet met ), but has a greatly diminished effect once one reaches middle class ( i. e. the Easterlin paradox ).

Daniel Denison ( 1990 ) describes artifacts as the tangible aspects of culture shared by members of an organization.

The Book of Daniel chapter 1, verses 12 through 15, for instance, describes a planned experiment with both baseline and follow-up observations of two groups who either partook of, or did not partake of, " the King's meat " over a trial period of ten days.

* Daniel Defoe describes the first house in A Tour Through England and Wales ( 1726 ).

# Long before Moll Flanders ( Daniel Defoe ), Lazarillo describes the domestic and working life of a poor woman, wife, mother, climaxing in the flogging of Lazarillo's mother through the streets of the town after her black husband Zayde is hanged as a thief.

Daniel Defoe ( 1660 – 1731 ) describes the state of the harbour and its approaches, saying that " Rye would flourish again, if her harbour, which was once able to receive the royal navy, cou'd be restor'd … " but that he thought it very doubtful that large ships would be able to use the port again.

Liz describes to the psychiatrist how she told Martyn ( Daniel Brocklebank ) about her unrequited love for Mike ; Martyn promised to help, as he and Liz were best friends.

The historian Charles Waite of the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg describes Daniel, particularly in regard to his early years in politics, as a " southern business progressive who promoted efficiency in government in regard to roads, schools, and agriculture.

Daniel Farrands, writer of The Curse of Michael Myers, describes the character as a " sexual deviant ".

Daniel P. Sheridan describes Advaitic Theism as a " both / and " solution for the question of whether God is transcendent or immanent in relation to creation, and credits the Bhāgavata with a " truly creative religious moment " for introducing this philosophy.

* Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel Moll Flanders describes Mohocks attacking people at a market.

Following a tradition inherited from antiquity, Daniel describes women as lustful and untrustworthy.

Qur ' an 56 describes the end times, the judgment of the dead, and the eternal reward and punishment of saints and sinners — an eschatological mythology similar to the storyline of the Christian Book of Revelation and to some elements in the Jewish Book of Isaiah and Book of Daniel.