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    The Pacificator: "Law is but a heathen word for power"
    The Pacificator: "Law is but a heathen word for power"
    The Pacificator: "Law is but a heathen word for power"
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    The Pacificator: "Law is but a heathen word for power"

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    Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1660, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused with similar vigour. It is said that only the bible has been printed in more languages than Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is also noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel. He was extremely prolific and a very versatile writer, producing several hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of economic journalism though was made bankrupt on more on one occasion and usually mired in debt. In later life Defoe was often most seen on Sundays when bailiffs and the like could legally make no move on him. Allegedly it was whilst hiding from creditors that he died on April 24th, 1731. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, London.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateJul 1, 2017
    ISBN9781787374232
    The Pacificator: "Law is but a heathen word for power"
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    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.

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      The Pacificator - Daniel Defoe

      The Pacificator by Daniel Defoe

      Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1660, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused with similar vigour.

      It is said that only the bible has been printed in more languages than Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is also noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel. He was extremely prolific and a very versatile writer, producing several hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of economic journalism though was made bankrupt on more on one occasion and usually mired in debt.

      In later life Defoe was often most seen on Sundays when bailiffs and the like could legally make no move on him.  Allegedly it was whilst hiding from creditors that he died on April 24th, 1731. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, London.

      Index of Contents

      THE PACIFICATOR

      DANIEL DEFOE – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      DANIEL DEFOE – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY

      THE PACIFICATOR

      What English Man, without Concern, can see

      The Approach of Bleeding Britain's Destiny?

      That Glorious Land which Justly did Preside,

      For Wit and Wealth, o'r all the World beside?

      In vain Victorious NASSAV did Advance

      His Conquering Arms against the Power of France,

      Since from those Conquests he is hardly come,

      But here's a Civil War broke out at Home:

      Britannia's Warlike Sons disturb the Isle,

      Delighting one another to Dispoil,

      Enur'd to Discord, Envy, and Debate,

      Hereditary Frenzies of the State.

      The Fruits of Ten Years War they now prevent,

      By Civil Feuds, and Private Discontent.

      The Peace We Gain'd! Does it so Cheap appear,

      To Prize so Low, what We have bought so Dear?

      The Blood, the Treasure, which has been Destroy'd!

      Methinks We shou'd with War and Wounds be Cloy'd,

      But 'twill not be,

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