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  • {{short description|1726 book by Daniel Defoe}} '''''The Political History of the Devil''''' is a 1726 book by [[Daniel Defoe]].<ref>McInelly, Brett (Autumn 2006). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3022794 ...
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  • ...re''' (1890–1973) was an American biographer and bibliographer of [[Daniel Defoe]]. ...100>[[P. N. Furbank]] and W. R. Owens (1988), ''The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe'' p. 100.</ref> Moore attended the [[University of Missouri]] where he rece ...
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  • {{Short description|Book by English author Daniel Defoe}} | author =[[Daniel Defoe]] ...
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  • ...] (October 10, 1971). [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/10/archives/maurice-by-e-m-forster-256-pp-new-york-w-w-norton-co-695-maurice.html "E. M. Forster's ...married the poet and critic [[Patricia Beer]]. The marriage was dissolved by 1964 when she remarried. ...
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  • ...ishers. Some scholars have suggested that the author was actually [[Daniel Defoe]], but this is disputed. ...ring in [[Charles Rivington]]'s shop in London, the book sold so well that by 1726, an enlarged fourth edition had appeared.<ref name=AHP/> English naval ...
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  • | works = Anti-Catholic writings ==Works== ...
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  • A number of works of literature have been claimed to be the first [[novel]] in English. * [[Daniel Defoe]], ''[[Robinson Crusoe|The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robins ...
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  • ...name ''drysalter'' or ''dry-salter'' was in use in the [[United Kingdom]] by the early 18th century<ref>{{citation| work = Oxford English dictionary|tit ...on]]. Later ''salter'' was also used to refer to people employed in a salt works, or in salting fish or meat, as well as to drysalters.{{cn|date=October 202 ...
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  • ...aking up the task of constructing a philosophical language left unfinished by [[John Wilkins]] (d. 1672). This group included Lodwick, besides Andrew Pa ...This approach is entirely parallel to the [[tengwar]] alphabet, developed by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] in the 1930s.<ref>Jim Allan, ''An Introduction to Elvi ...
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  • ...the [[Great Storm of 1703]] in England, is published anonymously in London by [[John Nutt (printer)|John Nutt]]. ...The English architect and dramatist Sir [[John Vanbrugh]] is commissioned by Queen Anne to begin [[Blenheim Palace]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John Henry ...
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  • ...|pages=9–10}}</ref> His work as therapist caught the attention of [[Daniel Defoe]], whose youngest daughter Sophia he married on 30 April 1729. ...Defoe in starting the ''Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal'' in 1728. Defoe in fact did little except at the launch of the publication, intended as an ...
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  • ...rcromby, Lord Glasford|Francis Abercromby]], who was created Lord Glasford by [[James II of England|King James II]]. He was born at [[Forfar]] in 1656 ap ...Border, and he crossed swords with no less redoubtable a foe than [[Daniel Defoe]] in his ''Advantages of the Act of Security compared with those of the int ...
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  • ...Sheikh Hasina]]. He is widely criticized as “Hasina's Personal Translator” by the people. ...itish Columbia]], Vancouver. His PhD dissertation was on works of [[Daniel Defoe]].<ref name=life/> ...
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  • ...member of the Seminary of Historical Political Science, which was directed by [[Herbert B. Adams]]. It was rare for a student to read more than one repor ...e edited ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' and wrote a biography and bibliography of Defoe in ten volumes (in manuscript to 1916). He collaborated in numerous literar ...
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  • ....<ref>''Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, And Fantasies of Conquest'', by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, University of Minnesota Press, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0 The word "robinsonade" was coined by the German writer [[Johann Gottfried Schnabel]] in the Preface of his 1731 ...
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  • {{Short description|1852 novel by Catharine Parr Traill}}{{Infobox book ...52 by [[London]] publisher Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Company. It was edited by her sister [[Agnes Strickland]]. ...
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  • '''''An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon''''' is a book written by the English trader and sailor [[Robert Knox (sailor)|Robert Knox]] in 1681. ...dy during the reign of [[Rajasinha II of Kandy|Rajasinha II]]. He survived by knitting caps, selling goods and lending rice and corn. He finally escaped ...
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  • {{short description|Novel by Daniel Defoe}} | author = [[Daniel Defoe]] ...
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  • ...y of Union]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Maximillian E.|last=Novak|title=Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions: His Life and Ideas|url=https://books.google.com/books? ...language]], made by pastor Michał Frencel who dies this year, is published by his son Abraham in [[Zittau]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Greville|last1=Corbet ...
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  • {{short description|1724 novel by Daniel Defoe}} | image = Defoe Roxana.png ...
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