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And What if the Pretender should Come?

By Daniel Defoe

2020-06-04 17:06:07

Excerpt...... If the danger of the pretender is really so great as the noise which some make about it seems to suppose, if the hopes of his coming are so well-grounded, as some of his friends seem to boast, it behooves us who are to be the subjects o ... Read more
Excerpt...... If the danger of the pretender is really so great as the noise which some make about it seems to suppose, if the hopes of his coming are so well-grounded, as some of his friends seem to boast, it behooves us who are to be the subjects of the approaching revolution, which his success must necessarily bring with it, to apply ourselves seriously to examine what our part will be in the play, that so we may prepare ourselves to act as becomes us, both with respect to the government we are now under, and with respect to the government we may be under, when the success he promises himself shall (if ever it shall) answer his expectation. Less

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File size50.887 KB
Print pages34
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1980591634
Daniel Defoe (1659/1661 [?] - 1731) was an English writer, journalist, and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of ...

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