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Daniel Defoe in his 1724 work A Tour thro ' the Whole Island of Great Britain notes, " We pass'd Stilton, a town famous for cheese, which is call'd our English Parmesan, and is brought to table with the mites, or maggots round it, so thick, that they bring a spoon with them for you to eat the mites with, as you do the cheese.
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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
* Defoe, Daniel 1661 ?- 1731 WorldCat Identity
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Daniel and 1724
Fahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 1686 – 1736 ).
In 1724 Daniel Defoe wrote of Lymington, Hampshire, on the south coast of England
Finally in 1724 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit produced a temperature scale which now ( slightly adjusted ) bears his name.
Plaistow is mentioned in Daniel Defoe's 1724 work, " Tour of the Eastern Counties " ( part of his “ A tour thro ’ the whole island of Great Britain ”), as a town in which there had been much new building as well as repairs to existing houses since the Revolution.
Daniel Nimham ( 1724 – 1778 ) was the last chief of the Wappingers and was the most prominent Native American of his time in the Hudson Valley.
The author, Daniel Defoe ( who attended school in Dorking and probably grew up in the village of Westhumble ) described the swallow holes in the River Mole in his book A tour thro ' the Whole Island of Great Britain ( first published in 1724 ):
In A tour thro ' the Whole Island of Great Britain, written between 1724 and 1726, Daniel Defoe described the area as barren and sterile ; " a mark of the just resentment shew ’ d by Heaven upon the Englishmen ’ s pride ... horrid and frightful to look on, not only good for little, but good for nothing ".
In 1724 Daniel Defoe wrote that Newton Abbot had a thriving serge industry that sent goods to Holland via Exeter.
In 1724 Daniel Defoe estimated there were 100 guns ranging from 24-pounder to 46-pounder: " A battery so terrible as well imports the consequence of the place ".
" The surface, at a distance, looks black and dirty, and will bear neither horse nor man ….. What nature meant by such a useless production ‘ tis hard to imagine, but the land is entirely to waste " are the words of Daniel Defoe as he rode through Risley in 1724.
The inventor of the Fahrenheit scale Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit learned of Rømer's work and visited him in 1708 ; in one of his letters Fahrenheit narrates how he borrowed the idea for the scale from this visit, increasing the number of divisions by a factor of four and eventually establishing what is now known as the Fahrenheit scale, in 1724.
Daniel Defoe in ' A tour thro ' the Whole Island of Great Britain ' ( 1724 – 27 ) said that Clare was " a poor town and dirty, the streets being unpaved.
Daniel Defoe published an account of a tour through Devon in 1724 and 1727.
Daniel Defoe writing in 1724 – 1727 mentions the recent improvements in the Bedfordshire bone-lace manufacture.
Daniel published an abridgment in 1724 ( English trans., 1726 ), and another abridgment was published by Dorival in 1751.
Fiennes's patriotic justification for domestic tourism and her interest in the " production and manufactures of each place " anticipated the genre of ' economic tourism ' which became formalised with Daniel Defoe's professional and survey-like A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain ( 1724 – 26 ).
Originally part of the estate of Caleb Smith ( 1724 – 1800 ), the great grandson of Richard " Bull " Smith, the house was built in 1753 with his father Daniel Smith II.
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