Daniel Defoe: Ambition & InnovationUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1986 - 299 pages |
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Page 175
... pirate , but Singleton's dreams are of calls to repentance , not to evil . For example , he dreams that the devil asks his trade and has come to get him . This dream is no temptation , as those of beautiful , immoral women described in ...
... pirate , but Singleton's dreams are of calls to repentance , not to evil . For example , he dreams that the devil asks his trade and has come to get him . This dream is no temptation , as those of beautiful , immoral women described in ...
Page 214
... pirate there were fifty pirate captives . We can imagine Defoe writing a novel about a successful woman bookseller ( after all , he published with several , including the difficult Scot Agnes Campbell ) , but that life would have been ...
... pirate there were fifty pirate captives . We can imagine Defoe writing a novel about a successful woman bookseller ( after all , he published with several , including the difficult Scot Agnes Campbell ) , but that life would have been ...
Page 233
... pirate biography , voyages to Ceylon , or accounts of the Great Northern War made little difference , for all depended upon an economical presenta- tion of an exciting event in the present time , relied upon a variety of " strange and ...
... pirate biography , voyages to Ceylon , or accounts of the Great Northern War made little difference , for all depended upon an economical presenta- tion of an exciting event in the present time , relied upon a variety of " strange and ...
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