Excerpt from Daniel Defoe: The Stanhope Essay, 1890 Daniel defoe was born in London in his father, James Foe, being a Nonconformist butcher in St. Giles', Crip plegate, and his grandfather apparently a yeoman or gentle man-farmer of Northamptonshire, in sufficiently substantial circumstances to keep a pack of hounds. Our author thus saw the light in the year after the Restoration; he'was twenty-four when ames II. Came to the throne in 1685, and twenty-seven in t e year of the Revolution. He seems to have made his first ...
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Excerpt from Daniel Defoe: The Stanhope Essay, 1890 Daniel defoe was born in London in his father, James Foe, being a Nonconformist butcher in St. Giles', Crip plegate, and his grandfather apparently a yeoman or gentle man-farmer of Northamptonshire, in sufficiently substantial circumstances to keep a pack of hounds. Our author thus saw the light in the year after the Restoration; he'was twenty-four when ames II. Came to the throne in 1685, and twenty-seven in t e year of the Revolution. He seems to have made his first appearance in the world of letters in 1683, when, according to his own account of the matter, he resorted to his pen in order to carry on a controversy with his Whig associates about the Turkish capture of Vienna; while his entry on the stage of public life dates from 1685, when he tells us that he took part in Monmouth's insurrection. We do not know Of his having published again before 1691, when he was just thirty and the next time we encounter the rebel of 1685 is in 1688, when we find him riding in the force with which William of Orange entered London, and after wards escorting William and Mary from Whitehall to a banquet in the City. It is thus evident that Defoe's entry on public life was by no means hasty, and that his time of silence and preparation practically coincided with the period between the Restoration and the Revolution. Before we begin to deal with our author's work in the world, something must be said of the world in which the work was done, of the condition of things into which the worker was born, and of the changes which were in progress while he was coming to maturity. We have outlived the belief in history as mainly concerned with kings and their satellites; and it is unnecessary to insist on the fact that the deeper lessons of the Restoration-period are not to be learned in the unedifying study of Charles II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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