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    An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures: Whether the Present Uncertainty of Affairs Issues in Peace or War
    An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures: Whether the Present Uncertainty of Affairs Issues in Peace or War
    An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures: Whether the Present Uncertainty of Affairs Issues in Peace or War
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    An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures: Whether the Present Uncertainty of Affairs Issues in Peace or War

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    Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) was a prolific English writer who became one of the first Western writers to write novels and turn them into a sought after literary genre. During his life, Defoe wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on topics as wide ranging as politics, crime, religion, psychology, supernatural events, and even economics.


    While those are all impressive accomplishments, Defoe’s name has lived on through Robinson Crusoe, one of the first and finest novels ever written. The book is written as a fictional autobiography of Robinson Crusoe, a castaway who spends nearly 30 years on a tropical island, where he encounters all kinds of danger and adventures. Published in the early 18th century, the novel may have been inspired by a real Scottish castaway, Alexander Selkirk, who lived for nearly 5 years on a Pacific Island. That island’s name has since been changed to Robinson Crusoe Island. Robinson Crusoe was a stark departure from the typical literature of the day, which was still based on ancient mythology, legends, and history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateJan 14, 2016
    ISBN9781518370021
    An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures: Whether the Present Uncertainty of Affairs Issues in Peace or War
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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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      An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures - Daniel Defoe

      AN HUMBLE PROPOSAL TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, FOR THE INCREASE OF THEIR TRADE, AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THEIR MANUFACTURES: WHETHER THE PRESENT UNCERTAINTY OF AFFAIRS ISSUES IN PEACE OR WAR

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      Daniel Defoe

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      PREFACE: TO THE: PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.

      SEASONABLE PROPOSAL, &c.

      An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures: Whether the Present Uncertainty of Affairs Issues in Peace or War

      By

      Daniel Defoe

      An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures: Whether the Present Uncertainty of Affairs Issues in Peace or War

      Published by Wallachia Publishers

      New York City, NY

      First published circa 1731

      Copyright © Wallachia Publishers, 2015

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      PREFACE: TO THE: PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.

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      IT DESERVES SOME NOTICE, THAT just at, or soon after writing these sheets, we have an old dispute warmly revived among us, upon the question of our trade being declined, or not declined. I have nothing to do with the parties, nor with the reason of their strife upon that subject; I think they are wrong on both sides, and yet it is hardly worth while to set them to rights, their quarrel being quite of another nature, and the good of our trade little or nothing concerned in it.

      Nor do they seem to desire to be set right, but rather to want an occasion to keep up a strife which perhaps serves some other of their wicked purposes, better than peace would do; and indeed, those who seek to quarrel, who can reconcile?

      I meddle not with the question, I say, whether trade be declined or not; but I may easily show the people of England, that if they please to concern themselves a little for its prosperity, it will prosper; and on the contrary, if they will sink it and discourage it, it is evidently in their power, and it will sink and decline accordingly.

      You have here some popular mistakes with respect to our woollen manufacture fairly stated, our national indolence in that very particular reproved, and the consequence laid before you; if you will not make use of the hints here given, the fault is nobody’s but your own.

      Never had any nation the power of improving their trade, and of advancing their own manufactures, so entirely in their own hands as we have at this time, and have had for many years past, without troubling the legislature about it at all: and though it is of the last importance to the whole nation, and, I may say, to almost every individual in it; nay, and that it is evident you all know it to be so; yet how next to impossible is it to persuade any one person to set a foot forward towards so great and so good a work; and how much labour has been spent in vain to rouse us up to it?

      The following sheets are as one alarm more given to the lethargic age, if possible, to

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