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Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.
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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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Daniel and account
In an essay on conspiracy theories originating in the Middle East, Daniel Pipes notes that " ive assumptions distinguish the conspiracy theorist from more conventional patterns of thought: appearances deceive ; conspiracies drive history ; nothing is haphazard ; the enemy always gains ; power, fame, money, and sex account for all.
In the Matthew account, Jesus is presented as quoting Daniel explicitly.
While Pepys provides an account of the Plague through his diary, Henry Foe's nephew Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague Year, a fictional account of the plague, in 1722, possibly based on Foe's journals.
Such views were influenced by an account of Telemann's music by Christoph Daniel Ebeling, a late-18th-century critic who in fact praised Telemann's music and only made passing critical remarks of his productivity.
Daniel Boyarin notes that Paul's own account of this experience would therefore be the earliest first person account of the mystical vision of a Merkabah adept.
In a much more detailed account, Edward Daniel Clarke stated that a French " officer and member of the Institute " had taken him, his student John Cripps, and Hamilton secretly into the back streets behind Menou's residence and revealed the stone hidden under protective carpets among Menou's baggage.
Daniel Kuehn attributes the improvement to the earlier monetary policy of the Federal Reserve, and notes that the changes in marginal tax rates were accompanied by an expansion in the tax base that could account for the increase in revenue.
The second chapter of Daniel relates an account attributed to the second year of his reign, in which Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a huge image made of various materials ( gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay ).
Daniel chapter 4 contains an account of Nebuchadnezzar's dream about an immense tree, which Daniel interprets to mean that Nebuchadnezzar will go insane for seven years because of his pride.
Daniel Lysons published The Environs of London: being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital in which he wrote: " In the early part of the present century there were annual races upon this common, which had then a King's plate.
Grosseteste lectured on the Psalter, the Pauline epistles, Genesis ( at least the creation account ), and possibly on Isaiah, Daniel and Sirach.
As the town's 50th year history noted: " To write a detailed account of the life and activities of Daniel Mathias Bare is practically equivalent to writing the industrial, and, to a very great extent, the institutional history of Roaring Spring.
At this crucial juncture, Murat's chief of staff, General Augustin Daniel Belliard rode straight to the Emperor's Headquarters and, according to General Ségur who wrote an account of the campaign, told him that the Russian line had been breached, that the road to Mozhaysk, behind the Russian line, was visible through the gaping hole the French attack had pierced, that an enormous crowd of runaways and vehicles were hastily retreating, and that a final push would be enough to decide the fate of the Russian army and of the war.
The theory, and its intellectual context, are treated with engaging irony in Daniel Kehlmann's fictionalised account of the travels of Alexander von Humboldt, Die Vermessung der Welt ( Measuring the World ) of 2006.
Consciousness Explained is a 1991 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which offers an account of how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain.
Henry, the founder of the Plauen line ( d. about 1300 ), on account of his marriage with a granddaughter of King Daniel of Galicia received the surname of " der Reusse " ( Ruthenus ), whence the name passed to the country.
His account of abilities of autistic savants has been questioned by the researcher Makoto Yamaguchi, and Daniel Tammet shared this view.
Josephus gives an account of Belshazzar largely paralleling the Book of Daniel but remarks that he was known to the Babylonians by the name Naboandelus.
Daniel P. Todes, in his account of Russian naturalism in the 19th century, concludes that Kropotkin ’ s work " cannot be dismissed as the idiosyncratic product of an anarchist dabbling in biology " and that his views " were but one expression of a broad current in Russian evolutionary thought that pre-dated, indeed encouraged, his work on the subject and was by no means confined to leftist thinkers.
It is an account of the life of Daniel " Rudy " Ruettiger, who harbored dreams of playing football at the University of Notre Dame despite significant obstacles.
A contemporary document, the Megillah of the gaon Abiathar from the land of Israel, gives an authentic account of this episode of the Egyptian exilarchate, which ended with the downfall of David ben Daniel in 1094 Q. R ." xv.
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