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id: A49360
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1680
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title:
  The loyal Protestants vindication, fairly offered to all those sober minds who have the art of using reason, and the power of suppressing passion by a Queen Elizabeth Protestant.

summary:
  For such hath been the imprudence of some Hot-headed men that carried this Petition about for Subscriptions , that they told the un-thinking vulgar , it was the Shibboleth to discern between the Protestants and Papists in England . This , This is the Test and Shiboleth to distinguish Protestants from Papists , and not your Form of Petition which lately went in Procession ; and should your boasted multitudes of Subscribers be brought to this Touchstone , we know that three parts of five would run a great danger of being convicted for Recusants by Law ; for many of you who proudly call your selves the True Protestants , will as stifly deny the doing of these things as the Rankest Papist in England .


id: A37431
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
title: The pacificator a poem.
date: 1700
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mime: application/xml
words: 4352
sentence: 143
flesch: 67
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summary:
  The Men of Sense against the Men of Wit , Eternal fighting must determine it . M — n , a Renegade from Wit , came on And made a false Attack , and next to none ; The Hypocrite , in Sense , could not conceal What Pride , and want of Brains , oblig'd him to reveal .


id: A37439
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
title: The six distinguishing characters of a Parliament-man address'd to the good people of England.
date: 1700
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mime: application/xml
words: 4976
sentence: 127
flesch: 53
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summary:
  But my Advice must differ from , tho' it must include part , of the forementioned Particulars ; and therefore while I am directing these Sheets to the Freeholders of England , I beg them to consider in their Choice of Parliament-men , that there may be Men of Estates , and Men of Honour in the Countries , who by some Circumstances may not be proper to serve in this Parliament , because by Prejudice or private Principles their Judgment may be pre-engaged to the Disadvantage of the Nation 's Interest ; and since there are such , 't is necessary , Gentlemen , to caution you , The six distinguishing characters of a Parliament-man address'd to the good people of England.


id: A30370
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1689
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mime: application/xml
words: 5948
sentence: 104
flesch: 37
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title:
  A letter, containing some reflections on His Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience dated the fourth of April, 1687

summary:
  X. At the end of the Declaration , as in a Postscript , His Majesty assures his Subjects , that he will maintain them in their Properties , as well in Church and Abbey-Lands , as other Lands : but the Chief of all their Properties being the share that they have by their Representatives in the Legislative Power ; this Declaration , which breaks thro that , is no great Evidence that the rest will be maintained : and to speak plainly , when a Coronation Oath is so little remembred , other Promises must have a proportioned degree of Credit given to them : as for the Abbey Lands , the keeping them from the Church is according to the Principles of that Religion Sacriledge ; and that is a Mortal Sin , and there can no Absolution be given to any who continue in it : and so this Promise being an Obligation to maintain men in a Mortal Sin , is null and void of it self : Church-Lands are also according to the Doctrine of their Canonists , so immediatly Gods Right , that the Pope himself is only the Administrator and Dispencer , but is not the Master of them ; he can indeed make a truck for God , or let them so low , that God shall be an easy Landlord : but he cannot alter Gods Property , nor translate the Right that is in him to Sacrilegious Laymen and Hereticks . And if His Majesty renounces his Pretensions to our Allegeance as founded on the Laws of England ; and betakes himself to this Law of Nature , he will perhaps find the Counsel was a little too rash ; but to make the most of this that can be , the Law of Nations or Nature does indeed allow the Governours of all Societies a Power to serve themselves of every Member of it in the cases of extream Danger ; but no Law of Nature that has been yet heard of will conclude , that if by special Laws , a sort of men have been disabled from all Imployments , that a Prince who at his Coronation Swore to maintain those Laws , may at his pleasure extinguish all these Disabilities .


id: A48827
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
title: The pretences of the French invasion examined for the information of the people of England
date: 1692
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words: 6480
sentence: 144
flesch: 48
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summary:
  We see Philip of Spain , who had no Title to be King of England but by his Marriage with Queen Mary , was made King at her Request and in her Right ; but he had not merited so much as our King , and therefore his Title was to cease at her Death . 'T is next to Frenzy to think the Pope and King of France furnish him with Mony , Ships , Forces , &c. only to secure the Protestant Religion and Church of England ; he must be tyed in more than ordinary Bonds , to endeavour the Ruin of both , or no such Favours had been shewn by such a Pope , and such a Persecutor : It cannot be Ease to Roman Catholicks he desires ; They are more at Ease under King William , than under any Protestant King ever since the Reformation : It must therefore be the suppressing all other Religions , and setting up that alone , must engage Rome , France and Lucifer in his Restauration : As for his Promises to us in his Declaration , alas he hath already given greater and stronger to the Pope and French King to the contrary ; and though his Interest , and the Hopes that some will be so mad to believe him , put him upon renewing these Promises to England , yet his Consessor can soon resolve him which Promise is to be kept , whether that pious Catholick Promise to the Holy Father , and the Hector of that Cause , or that extorted one to Hereticks :


id: A37444
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
title: The two great questions further considered with some reply to the remarks / by the author.
date: 1700
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6692
sentence: 199
flesch: 64
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summary:
  I care not who is King of France or Spain , so the King of England Governs according to Law. BEFORE I enter into the Particulars of the Book I am going to vindicate , I must desire the Reader to observe that this Book was wrote before the French King had declar'd He would accept the King of Spain's Will , or had receiv'd the Duke d' Anjou as King of Spain .


id: A37443
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1700
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7592
sentence: 187
flesch: 57
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title:
  The two great questions consider'd I. What the French king will do, with respect to the Spanish monarchy, II. What measures the English ought to take.

summary:
  By these they tell you , the Emperor will immediately on the one side secure Italy , and on the other side make such a Vigorous Diversion on the Rhine , that the King of France shall have Work enough to secure his own Dominions , while in the mean time the Arch-Duke Charles shall be sent into Spain , where the Spaniards who naturally hate the French , will immediately proclaim him King. SInce the Following Sheets were in the Press , some Letters from France advise , that the King of France has saluted his Grandson the Duke D'Anjou , as King of Spain .


id: A37433
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7283
sentence: 174
flesch: 51
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title:
  The poor man's plea to all the proclamations, declarations, acts of Parliament, &c. which have been or shall be made or publish'd for a reformation of manners and suppressing immorality in the nation.

summary:
  These are Great Things , and well improv'd , would give an undoubted Overthrow to the Tyranny of Vice , and the Dominion Prophaneness has usurp'd in the hearts of men . The Ways by which the present Torrent of Vice has been let in upon the Nation , and by which it maintains the Tyranny it has usurp'd on the Lives of the Inhabitants , are too plain to be hid .


id: A37428
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7707
sentence: 187
flesch: 51
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title:
  An enquiry into the occasional conformity of dissenters in cases of preferment with a preface to the lord mayor, occasioned by his carrying the sword to a conventicle.

summary:
  But our Eyes are at last open'd , and the Name of Protestant is now the common Title of an Englishman , and the Church of England extends her Protection to the Tender Consciences of her Weaker Brethren , knowing that all may be Christians , tho' not alike inform'd ; and the Dissenter extends his Charity to the Church of England , believing that in his due time God shall reveal even this unto them . I neither press Your Lordship to go to Church or Meeting , but to use the Authority Man has given you to procure Your self the freedom of using the Judgment God has given You ; That honest Mr. Sword-bearer may have his Liberty , and Your Lordship Your own .


id: A37436
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1700
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7331
sentence: 166
flesch: 46
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title:
  Reasons humbly offer'd for a law to enact the castration of popish ecclesiastics, as the best way to prevent the growth of popery in England

summary:
  REASONS Humbly offer'd for a Law to enact the Castration of Popish Ecclesiasticks , &c. THE Honourable House of Commons having been pleas'd to take into their Consideration the unaccountable growth of Popery amongst us of late , and to appoint a Committee to consider of Ways and Means for preventing the same : It is thought fit , among the croud of Proposals for that end , to publish what follows . The Case then being thus , let 's consider what a deluge of Uncleanness may be pour'd out upon this Nation by 1000 or 2000 , supposing there were no more of those Popish Ecclesiasticks in England at a time ; especially since they look upon it to be their Interest to debauch the Nation , as one of the best Expedients to advance Popery , as was evident from the practice of the late Reigns : and therefore it seems to be the natural way of obviating the growth of Popery , to make the Romish Ecclesiasticks uncapable of promoting it by that Method which they like best , and find most successful .


id: A48302
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7905
sentence: 176
flesch: 47
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title:
  Lex talionis, or, An enquiry into the most proper ways to prevent the persecution of the Protestants in France

summary:
  Day of August , Charles IX . being King of France , the Third War with the Hugonots having been lately ended , and a Peace made with the Protestants , the Cities of Rochell , Montauban , Coignac , and la Charitie , being put into their Hands for Security , and the Chief of the Protestants wholly resting on the Faith and Honour of the King , in full Satisfaction of his sincere Intentions , being come to Court , was acted the Massacre of Paris ; at which , in the space of Five Days , above Thirty Thousand Protestants were barbarously Surprized and Butcher'd in Cold Blood. I have been the more particular in this Account , because from hence it will appear that the Protestants of France stand on a different foot from other Subjects of that Monarchy , and that his right of Dealing with them , differs from his Power over the rest of his Subjects , for they are his Subjects by express Stipulations and Agreements , whose Obedience to him has been always allow'd to be Conditional ; they have made Peace and War with their Kings , not as Rebels , but as Persons having a Lawful Right to Plead and to Defend , their Kings have given them Cautionary Towns for the Performance of the Treaties made with them ; a Thing which in its own Nature implies that they might hold those Towns against him , if he did not perform the Postulata of those Treaties , without the Scandal of Rebellion .


id: A37422
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
title: A brief reply to the History of standing armies in England with some account of the authors.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8155
sentence: 207
flesch: 58
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summary:
  -- Army -- History. THE Outcry against an Army in England is carried on with so high a hand , that nothing can be said to it with any hope of Effect on the Complainants .


id: A37421
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8745
sentence: 217
flesch: 56
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title:
  An argument shewing, that a standing army, with consent of Parliament, is not inconsistent with a free government, &c.

summary:
  I think their Triumph goes before their Victory ; and if Books and Writing will not , God be thanked the Parliament will Confute them , by taking care to maintain such Forces , and no more , as they think needful for our safety abroad , without danger at home , and leaving it to time to make it appear , that such an Army , with Consent of Parliament , is not inconsistent with a Free Government , &c. King Charles the First had the same in the several Expeditions for the Relief of Rochel , and that fatal Descent upon the Isle of Rhe , and in his Expeditions into Scotland ; and they would do well to reconcile their Discourse to it self , who say in one place , If King Charles had had Five thousand Men , the Nation had never struct one stroak for their Liberties ; and in another , That the Parliament were like to have been petitioned out of doors by an Army a hundred and fifty Miles off , tho there was a Scotch Army at the Heels of them : for to me it appears that King Charles the First had an Army then , and would have kept it , but that he had not the Purse to pay them , of which more may be said hereafter .


id: A37429
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1698
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mime: application/xml
words: 10347
sentence: 193
flesch: 41
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title:
  The interests of the several princes and states of Europe consider'd, with respect to the succession of the crown of Spain, and the titles of the several pretenders thereto examin'd

summary:
  In case of a Union with France , 't is very probable the Channel of Trade to Spain may be entirely alter'd : The French are a busy Trading Nation themselves , and are very apt to vye with the English and Dutch in their Manufactures : And to go no further , when 't is in their power to admit their own Merchants to import their Manufactures Custom-free , while we shall pay 23 per Cent. Philip the Fourth left One Son and Two Daughters ; the Eldest Daughter , Maria Teresia , was married to the present French King , and was Mother to the present Dauphin of France ; and in case of the Death of the present King of Spain , the Dauphin of France is Heir Apparent to the Crown of Spain , and to all its Dominions ; and , one Clause excepted , has an Unquestion'd Title to the Succession of the said Kingdoms .


id: A65414
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
title: An answer to the late K. James's last declaration, dated at St. Germains, April 17. s.n. 1693
date: 1693
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10329
sentence: 316
flesch: 62
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summary:
  eng James -- II, -- King of England, 1633-1701. This devouring Monster , altogether unknown to our Ancestors , was not only to swallow up all Laws that stood in the late King's way towards the Grand Design , but was to have the Force of a Law in it self as strong as any ever made by King , Lords , and Commons .


id: A37441
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11248
sentence: 246
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A37441.xml
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title:
  Some reflections on a pamphlet lately published entituled An argument shewing that a standing army is inconsistent with a free government and absolutely destructive to the constitution of the English monarchy

summary:
  Depending on a due Ballance between King , Lords and Commons ; and affirms from thence , That this Constitution must break the Army , or the Army destroy this Constitution : and affirms absolutely , with a Confidence Peculiar to himself , That no Nation can preserve its freedom , which maintains any other Army than such as is composed of a Militia of its own Gentry and Freeholders . Page the Sixth he begins very honestly , with a Recognition of our Security under the present King , and softens his Reader into a belief of his Honesty , by his Encomiums on his Majesty's Person , which would be well compar'd with his Seventeenth Page , to shew how he can frame his Stile to his Occasion ; but in short , concludes , that when he is dead , we know not who will come next ; nay , the Army may come and make who they please King , and turn the Parliament out of Doors and therefore in short , we ought not to trust any thing to him , that we wou'd not trust to the greatest Tyrant that may succeed him .


id: A88029
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1700
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12055
sentence: 241
flesch: 43
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title:
  A letter to a member of Parliament, shewing, that a restraint on the press is inconsistent with the Protestant religion, and dangerous to the liberties of the nation

summary:
  And 't is all the reason in the world that whoever asserts any such Notions , whether in Discourse , or from the Pulpit or Press , should be severely punished . In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.


id: A37442
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
title: The true-born Englishman a satyr.
date: 1700
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10655
sentence: 508
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A37442.xml
txt: txt/A37442.txt
summary:
  This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Early English books online.


id: A54794
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1682
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11967
sentence: 398
flesch: 67
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title:
  Speculum crape-gownorum, or, An old looking-glass for the young academicks, new foyl'd with reflections on some of the late high-flown sermons : to which is added, An essay towards a sermon of the newest fashion / by a guide to the inferiour clergy.

summary:
  Another sort there are ●hat stuff their Sermons with frightful metaphors ; flie to both the Indies , ransack Heaven and Earth ; down to the bottom of the Sea ; romage all the Shops and Ware●houses , spare neither Camp nor City , but they will have them . Judging , that should the Ministers words be such as comes to the common Ma●ket , plain and practical , he might pass probably for an honest and well meaning man , but by no●means for that thing which he would be thought to be , a Scholar ▪ Whereas if he give a spring now● and then in high Raptures towards the uppermost Heavens , dashing here and there an All● amazing word if he soars aloft in bombasti●●● Huffs , preaches Points de●p and mystical , and delivers the● as dark and Phantastical ; This is the way to be admired , and accounted a most able and profound ●nstructer .


id: A63456
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1690
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12771
sentence: 313
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A63456.xml
txt: txt/A63456.txt
title:
  Taxes no charge in a letter from a gentleman, to a person of quality, shewing the nature, use, and benefit of taxes in this kingdom, and compared with the impositions of foreign states : together with their improvement of trade in time of war.

summary:
  Not as here in England , where it comes last to the King , for the Royal Assent : But there the King sends the Parliament word , t●at he will have so much Money ; and all the favour that they can obtain from him , is , to place it on such Commoditi●s , or way● , as they think most expedient . And , 't is not unworthy observation to remark , T●at these Parliaments of France are in eff●ct no more than Courts of Iudicature , in Matters of Right betwixt man and man , hearing and judging Causes , and their Places bought from t●e King , not elected by the People .


id: A37430
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1699
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13370
sentence: 384
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A37430.xml
txt: txt/A37430.txt
title:
  A Letter to a member of Parliament, shewing the necessity of regulating the press chiefly from the necessity of publick establishments in religion, from the rights and immunities of a national church, and the trust reposed in the Christian magistrate to protect and defend them : with a particular answer to the objections that of late have been advanced against it.

summary:
  And truly , if to this Just Law , another as Equitable were established , That Persons who will not content ' emselves with the Communion of the Established Religion , should thereby be uncapable of any Places of Trust or Office , either in Church or State ; as we find it in Neighbour Countries , I question not but it would have produced a greater Unanimity in Matters of Religion , than the most hopeful Projects of Comprehension . An Enquiry into the Duty of the Magistrate in matters of Religion : Sect. 1. Considered , first , under a state of Nature , 1b .


id: A54793
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1682
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13825
sentence: 720
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A54793.xml
txt: txt/A54793.txt
title:
  Speculum crape-gownorum, the second part, or, A continuation of observations and reflections upon the late sermons of some that would be thought Goliah's for the Church of England by the same author.

summary:
  I only speak this to shew , that men are not to urge upon the Conscience so severely , that were so nice of it themselves . Priest. Oh Sir , upon extraordinary occasions , and in extraordinary places , men come to shew their Parts and their Learning , not their Divinity .


id: A48420
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16585
sentence: 433
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A48420.xml
txt: txt/A48420.txt
title:
  The Life of that incomparable princess, Mary, our late sovereign lady, of ever blessed memory who departed this life, at her royal pallace at Kensington, the 28th of December, 1694.

summary:
  Madam , AS the Memory of so dear a Royal Mistriss , Your own more particular , and the Worlds no less Universal Loss , is that most sacred Amulet that You wear nearest your heart ; so every Pourtrait of that divine Original , tho' never so faint an Essay , carries some pretension to your Ladyships favourable Acceptance . And therefore 't is from that Merit alone that I presume to make your Ladiship this Presentation ; whilst my endeavours however short of performance , in delineating the unexampled Virtues of that more than Royal that Heavenly Life , the great Theme before me , may in some measure be a venial Fault , for all Hands must be ambitious to strow Flowers upon that Grave .


id: A69440
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1683
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18972
sentence: 357
flesch: 38
cache: cache/A69440.xml
txt: txt/A69440.txt
title:
  An account of Monsieur De Quesne's late expedition at Chio together with the negotiation of Monsieur Guilleragues, the French ambassadour at the port / in a letter written by an officer of the Grand Vizir's to a pacha ; translated into English.

summary:
  But for himself he had Prerogatives above other Ambassadors , and had been ever Faithful to the Port : That , in fine , He was Ambassador of France , and it behov'd them to consider well , before they did any thing might wrong that Character . But the Ambassador beginning to discover , that he was deluded , writ to this old Madman , to approach to the Cape of Janissaries , near Smyrna : But commanded him too not to come nearer the Dardanelloes , those Keys of the World , assuring him if he did , it would prove the destruction of all the French Fleet ; And then these would be no Quarter for the Merchants , nor Ambassador himself We knew these Circumstances by reason the Dowanier , at the beginning , whilest the Matter of Chio depended , had so possest the French Ambassador with the assurance of that danger ; that , that terror still possest him , which had prevented the French Admiral coming nearer them before : And was now again the Cause that he only came to an Anchor , as I said before , at the Cape of Janissaries , which is the entrance of that Gulf which Conducts one by a space of seven or eight Miles to these Castles , which are the first Keys of this vast and strong City : the desire of Kings , the splendid and proud Town of Constantinople .


id: A37437
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1689
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22328
sentence: 501
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A37437.xml
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title:
  Reflections upon the late great revolution written by a lay-hand in the country for the satisfaction of some neighbours.

summary:
  For this I can be very sure of , that in the Holy Line , that Branch of the Posterity of Noah wherein the Church was to be preserved , and from whence the Messiah was to spring , there was no King for near Fifteen hundred years after the Flood , and yet one would have guest , that that People that were so particularly favour'd of God , that they had the Enclosure of his other Laws and Ordinances , ( as the Psalmist tells us , Psal. But to go on with our Story ; David , on the former account , finding it necessary to turn over the Crown to Solomon , during his own Life , yet thinks it fit to give the People an Account of his Proceedings , and the Reasons of them ; for he tells them , that God had chosen Judah to be the Ruler , and of the house of Judah , the house of my father ; and among the sons of my father , he liked me to make me King over Israel .


id: A70272
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22076
sentence: 540
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A70272.xml
txt: txt/A70272.txt
title:
  A free discourse wherein the doctrines which make for tyranny are display'd the title of our rightful and lawful King William vindicated, and the unreasonableness and mischievous tendency of the odious distinction of a king de facto, and de jure, discover'd / by a Person of Honour.

summary:
  That King James the Second , having endeavoured to Subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom , by breaking the Original Contract between King and People ; and by the advice of the Jesuites , and other wicked Persons , having violated the Fundamental Laws , and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom , hath abdicated the Government , and that the Throne is thereby become vacant . But I will make short of this matter — Original Contract there must have been between King and People , wherever lawful Power is exercised by a King , because Kings are not immediately chose of God :


id: A37425
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1699
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31411
sentence: 697
flesch: 48
cache: cache/A37425.xml
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title:
  The Compleat mendicant, or, Unhappy beggar being the life of an unfortunate gentleman ... a comprehensive account of several of the most remarkable adventures that befel him in three and twenty years pilgrimage : also a narrative of his entrance at Oxford ... likewise divers familiar letters, both Latin and English sermons, poems, essays ...

summary:
  Life considered under the simple Notion of self Activity , is so far a good or ill , as 't is actuated by a Greater or Lesser sence of Pain and Pleasure , so that those Persons only that are sensible of more Pleasure then Pain , Life , consider'd barely in it self , can be any ways desirable , and then I 'm affraid too when we come to make the Parallel , we shall find that the Latter in General does so much out Ballance the former , that an exit out of the World , both upon the Account of the Evil from which it delivers us , and the good , into which it Instates us , is in most , if not in every thing , preferable to a continuance in it . Seeing therefore that Death renders us intirely Insensible of pain and Misery , and that Life in its best and most Improv'd state , is constantly expos'd to so many Dangerous Ills , it naturaly follows , that Death considered in it self , without any respect to the consequence , is really preferable to Life .


