The Novels And Miscellaneous Works Of Daniel De Foe With A Biographical Memoir Of The Author Literary Prefaces To The Various Pieces Illustrative Notes Etc

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334121760
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe, Vol. 15 written by Daniel Defoe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe, Vol. 15: With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Literary Prefaces to the Various Pieces, Illustrative Notes, Etc But we are, I say, arrived at a time in which men will frankly own a thing to be their duty, which at the same time they dare omit the practice of; and innumerable arts, shifts, and turns, they find out to make that omission easy to themselves, and excusa ble to others. One part of this work is pointed at such; if pos sible, to make them blush at their unaccountable rashness, and to shame them out of such a sordid, inconsistent course, as that of living in the allowed omission of what they acknowledge to be their duty. The way I have taken for this, is entirely new, and at first perhaps it may appear something odd, and the method may be contemned; but let such blame their own more irregular tempers, that must have every thing turned into new models; must be touched with novelty, and have their fancies humoured with the dress of a thing so that if it be what has been said over and over a thousand times, yet if it has but a different coloured coat, or a new feather in its cap, it pleases and wins upon them whereas the same truths written in the divinest style in the world, would be at, stale, and unpleasant, without it. If then, after all the pains which have been taken by ministerial labour and instruction, and by the pressing exhortations and moving arguments of eminent divines, even of all Opinions, in their writings on this subject, this mean and familiar me thod should by its novelty prevail, this will be a happy undertaking, and at the same time be no re proach at all to the labours of others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."