Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 39 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 55947 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 69 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 man 14 England 12 thing 11 King 11 God 10 time 9 ship 9 great 9 Men 9 English 8 day 8 Defoe 7 London 6 way 6 good 6 Captain 5 french 5 War 5 Sir 5 People 5 Lord 5 Heaven 5 Friday 5 France 4 english 4 country 4 come 4 Spaniards 4 Providence 4 Prince 4 Board 3 person 3 nation 3 money 3 life 3 World 3 St. 3 Sloop 3 Sea 3 Mr. 3 Madagascar 3 John 3 James 3 Island 3 General 3 French 3 Englishmen 3 Earl 3 Duke 3 Britain Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 6441 man 4457 time 3864 thing 3395 ship 3370 day 3292 way 2226 part 2094 nothing 2093 place 1959 people 1881 hand 1846 country 1666 life 1607 shore 1506 side 1484 year 1484 boat 1344 king 1294 word 1271 house 1203 money 1194 island 1161 board 1158 reason 1147 sea 1136 order 1130 piece 1100 water 1094 rest 1091 world 1087 business 1081 account 1065 manner 1039 person 996 occasion 989 town 983 work 978 night 977 tradesman 975 trade 970 woman 957 kind 951 case 949 captain 919 head 911 good 907 mind 885 end 874 other 865 body Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1478 God 1473 Devil 1444 Men 1372 Captain 1166 King 1157 England 768 Amy 758 Pyrates 754 English 747 Friday 741 Man 728 World 640 Sir 639 London 638 William 635 Ship 562 Spaniards 548 Prince 536 Island 532 Sloop 508 John 504 St. 493 War 492 Master 484 Time 482 Mr. 480 Lord 458 Sea 453 Board 440 c. 438 Robinson 435 Place 432 France 427 French 388 Satan 385 Majesty 380 Governor 376 Coast 374 thou 362 Heaven 360 General 357 Earl 356 Defoe 356 Company 354 Town 333 Boat 322 Pyrate 321 Providence 307 House 297 James Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 37467 i 26050 it 24637 he 22974 they 15666 them 14266 we 12199 him 9828 me 5807 you 4931 us 4248 she 3470 her 2101 himself 1800 themselves 1414 myself 468 ourselves 412 itself 217 herself 208 ''em 201 thee 161 one 131 yourself 93 mine 65 theirs 54 ours 46 his 25 thyself 22 yours 13 ''s 8 yourselves 8 hers 7 ay 6 ye 6 wife.--but 4 us''d 3 em 2 w.a.--that 2 thou 2 on''t 2 e''en 1 you?--what 1 unarm''d 1 thy 1 thus:--they 1 thus,-- 1 thro 1 shou''d 1 preserved:-- 1 plugg''d 1 oblig''d Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 80313 be 33851 have 9796 do 9314 make 8008 say 7881 come 7870 go 6711 take 5442 see 4839 give 4519 find 4200 know 3530 tell 3519 think 2939 get 2819 bring 2574 call 2509 leave 2285 put 1937 keep 1908 carry 1857 begin 1837 send 1731 let 1676 run 1594 lie 1592 set 1583 hear 1461 fall 1430 look 1417 stand 1325 live 1309 speak 1282 resolve 1148 seem 1120 lay 1103 believe 1098 meet 1070 kill 937 appear 932 use 926 understand 895 return 890 lose 871 ask 860 receive 858 pass 856 suppose 845 oblige 830 want Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 17853 not 9833 so 6843 very 5631 great 4923 more 4738 up 4088 other 3976 as 3912 well 3832 much 3758 good 3617 then 3492 now 3371 out 3354 first 3260 little 3003 such 2657 only 2483 again 2437 own 2389 here 2362 many 2193 there 2163 too 2148 never 2144 away 2131 most 2128 indeed 2114 in 2033 same 1898 down 1880 off 1812 long 1712 about 1706 several 1618 before 1593 also 1575 soon 1490 last 1450 however 1416 thus 1397 enough 1360 next 1311 poor 1305 all 1276 yet 1266 just 1234 ever 1197 on 1193 old Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 993 least 713 good 520 most 449 great 198 bad 85 high 55 eld 47 large 41 fine 33 strong 33 big 31 near 30 mean 27 farth 23 rich 21 j 20 manif 19 young 17 remote 17 deep 17 Most 15 low 14 short 13 safe 13 long 13 hard 12 pleasant 12 gross 11 wise 11 weak 11 strange 11 small 11 nice 10 southernmost 9 old 9 late 9 l 9 fit 9 brave 9 able 8 hot 7 stout 7 dear 7 clear 7 bright 6 heavy 6 forward 6 easy 5 wild 5 swift Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1611 most 79 least 77 well 6 worst 3 sayest 2 soon 2 highest 2 hard 1 walkest 1 long 1 lest 1 fittest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.org 2 www.gutenberg.net 1 www.uflib.ufl.edu Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 2 http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/521 1 http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?s=defoe&m=hd1J&i=53904 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11866/11866/11866.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11866/11866.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 2 ccx074@pglaf.org 2 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 nothing is more 14 men were so 12 nothing was more 11 devil has not 10 god does not 10 men were not 9 devil is not 9 men did not 8 things are not 6 men were very 6 things have not 5 king had not 5 king was so 5 man was so 5 men came out 5 men took up 5 people did not 5 people had not 5 thing is not 5 thing was so 5 things being thus 5 things were so 4 god had not 4 island were not 4 man is not 4 men were now 4 people do not 4 people were not 4 people were very 4 ship put in 4 ship was now 4 time was so 4 words were never 3 boat did not 3 boat put off 3 boats came up 3 country was plain 3 country was very 3 country were very 3 devil did not 3 devil does not 3 devil had not 3 devil was not 3 england was not 3 god has sinners 3 god is so 3 house was as 3 king was dead 3 king was once 3 life is not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 life is not worth 2 god does not ordinarily 2 god had not wonderfully 2 island were not very 2 man has no need 2 man is no more 2 men did not really 2 men were not able 2 part having no iron 2 people were no more 2 people were not murderers 2 place was not deep 2 ship was no sooner 2 ships have no authority 2 things are not only 2 word had no sound 1 boat had not yet 1 boats being not able 1 country had no error 1 country had no fire 1 days gave no security 1 devil did not immediately 1 devil found not subject 1 devil has no knowledge 1 devil has no particular 1 devil has not quite 1 devil has not such 1 devil has not yet 1 devil is no fool 1 devil is no infidel 1 devil is no old 1 devil is not infallible 1 devil is not pleased 1 devil is not very 1 devil is not yet 1 devil was not far 1 devil was not mistaken 1 devil was not so 1 england was not able 1 god had no concern 1 god had not yet 1 houses was no way 1 island are not very 1 island have no navigation 1 island were not joyous 1 island were not properly 1 king had no right 1 king had not money 1 king have no title 1 king having no right Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 236122 12623 164573 30344 130472 40580 130451 57005 130383 31053 124935 14444 124767 11239 120521 11866 119224 35774 114307 6422 108775 12259 100743 561 94602 17221 81035 14436 64105 7089 41752 1149 30289 7799 29732 37992 28495 14442 17358 7779 16915 37505 15804 32139 14465 26940 14379 32384 13149 32405 13049 14065 11416 30159 10664 14084 10515 2051 10141 36628 9099 36681 8711 36769 7547 2052 7407 54925 6362 36694 6118 36587 5970 36656 5028 32404 2541 41063 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 96.0 7799 96.0 41063 84.0 30159 75.0 30344 75.0 36694 74.0 17221 73.0 36587 73.0 32404 72.0 11866 71.0 37992 71.0 40580 70.0 14442 70.0 12259 70.0 6422 70.0 11239 70.0 37505 69.0 14436 69.0 31053 69.0 14065 69.0 2051 69.0 57005 68.0 32405 67.0 26940 67.0 1149 67.0 2052 67.0 561 67.0 12623 66.0 14444 66.0 7089 65.0 7779 65.0 32139 64.0 36656 62.0 14084 62.0 35774 62.0 36628 60.0 32384 59.0 36681 58.0 54925 52.0 36769 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11239 run away to sea, and would not come near us, ordered us to fire a gun as very good meat; but the great joy that poor Xury came with, was to tell down, and went and stood a great way off till we fetched it on board, time, to see some ship at sea, and therefore resolved to place myself as the ship; in which time I had brought away all that one pair of hands during which time the ship broke in pieces (the wind blowing a little time went away with so little work, viz. Having secured my boat, I took my gun and went on shore, climbing up on came on shore from my boat: this cheered me up a little too, and I began thought I saw a boat upon the sea, at a great distance. This put me in mind of the first time when I came on shore, and began to 1149 the works for some time till the king, reviving his good liking of the Near this town, a little north-west, the Duke of Bolton has another seat, The town sits in the bottom of a great bay or inlet of the sea, which, entrance, and comes up to the very shore of this town; it runs also west a good number of ships belonging to the town. It has neither house nor town in view all the way; and the road, There lived a good substantial family in the town not far from the "Angel And in return they say this town and the country round it raised a great it as you please), we come into a large country without many towns in it country, which passing at Trewardreth (a town of no great note, though populous, has a good trade, and a great many ships belonging to it, 11866 you fool you," said he, "this is nothing; a good ship and sea-room father; who hearing of the ship''s calamity, for a long time thought me turning to me gravely, said, "Young man, you ought never to go to sea longing eyes did I look upon my little kingdom, and thought the island such time as I shot a great many, and the rest left me without troubling In short, he did every thing as I ordered him, and in a little time as Here Friday expressed a great concern: Ah, poor mans! in it: You know, Sir, said he, that having been some time with you, I good as their word; for by that time they brought eleven men & five Sir, said he, to me, one day, since, under God, at the same time Scarce had we time to get the boat ashore, when our men came 12259 command of Sir John Hepburn, in the army of the King of Sweden, and I of horse which the king also sent to the charge, the bloodiest fight me, my horses, and servants at the king''s charge till farther order. regiment of foot was come over, and as soon as day appeared the king Spaniards, and the king, leaving 200 Scots of Sir James Ramsey''s men The king immediately detaches a strong body of horse and foot to to the prejudice of our men; whereupon the king ordered the army to Majesty, marching southward to meet the king, joined the army near the king calls a council of war, and proposed to fight Essex''s army. The king lost the most men, his foot having suffered the king''s army in his rear, the country his enemy, and Sir Richard king orders me a regiment of dragoons and 300 horse, and the body 12623 eight days, during which time a great many ships from Newcastle came very good meat; but the great joy that poor Xury came with, was to tell down, and went and stood a great way off till we fetched it on board, great way towards the shore when it came on, might not carry me back time) for I found great occasion of many things which I had no way to much of my time went away with so little work, viz. ship''s boat, which, as I have said, was blown up upon the shore a great thought I saw a boat upon the sea at a great distance; I had found a great pity, as I said, that the other part of the ship had not come to God. I told him, that the great Maker of all things lived there, the two villains that set them on shore in the island, came a little way 14065 This John Sheppard, a Youth both in Age and Person, tho'' an old Man in This Fact he confess''d to the Reverend Mr. Wagstaff before his Escape from the Condemn''d Hold of Newgate. February: All possible endeavours were us''d by Mrs. Cook and Mr. Phillips, to get John Sheppard and Edgworth Bess Apprehended, but Sheppard into the House at Mid-Night; and they all go up to Mr. Bartons Appartment well arm''d with Pistols, and enter''d his Rooms, and Sheppard, having disposed of the Goods at an Ale-house in the House of William Kneebone, in the Night-Time, and stealing, 108 Having now got clear of his Prison, he took Coach disguis''d in a Night came to Sheppard having bought him a new blue Butcher''s Frock, and long e''re they came in Sight of SHEPPARD in Company of WILLIAM PAGE, be convey''d to Sheppard to assist him in making an Escape. 14084 Just what motive caused Defoe to write A Vindication of the Press is Criticisms introduc''d" make such an essay as he writes "absolutely first the author vindicates the usefulness of writing; in the second Learning and universal Writing in Poetry, perhaps the greatest that OR, AN ESSAY ON THE Usefulness of Writing, ON CRITICISM, AND THE The fatal Criticism or Damnation which the Writings of some Authors universal Writing in Poetry, perhaps the Greatest that England has other Persons, equally qualified for Writing, and perhaps of greater attending this easy Writing, and there are very few Persons that can Person of universal Learning: Though I have often observ''d, both in the Writings of the Author of the True born English Man; (a Poem Person celebrated for Writing, without the use of Conversation, in noble Plants; that a Person writing a great deal on various Subjects, 14436 the Prince gave Orders to decamp, and march''d his Army with a Design to The Enemy being march''d out, the Prince enter''d the Town, and But General Mackay having receiv''d Orders to build a Fort at great Fleet at Hand ready to give Assistance in all Places near the Sea. From all which it is pretty apparent, that in a little time the War on Element, and acted as General Officers at Land: They came every Day from to increase it, the Earl every Day receiv''d such Commands from the King Barcelona; where, as soon as the Earl with his Forces arriv''d, he took on the good Nature of that generous Earl, without any great Difficulty, While the Earl of Peterborow was here with his little Army of great Place much stronger, tho'' Time too soon show''d me that Strength it self King Charles with his Army having stay''d some Time about Madrid, and 14442 King James II follow''d his Fate into France and Ireland, and I was a long Time of Opinion France really design''d it; yet since I King James went so well at that time in Ireland, that there was not great Odds that Nation wou''d be quickly recover''d by King William''s mean time, we heard a great Noise behind us, and turning my self about, from King James''s Service; but it was not in my power at that time, to and that King James wou''d have look''d upon himself as oblig''d to have France in making a Politick use of King James''s Misfortune, that French King''s Politicks, began now to think he had laid all Thoughts at St. Germains, That in a little Time King James would make another part of King James''s Friends often entertain''d themselves, but great the Conduct of France in regard of King James and the Pretender, I 14444 For a young man coming out of his time to have his shop or warehouse come out of their times better finished for business and trade than they there is a kind of slang in trade, which a tradesman ought to know, as The like happens often when a tradesman turns his hand from one trade to In the mean time, the tradesman''s proper business is in his shop or the man lost his trade, his shop was entirely neglected, the time which Suppose the young tradesman buys ten thousand pounds'' value of goods on So easy a thing is it for a tradesman to lose his credit in trade, and necessary people in their trades, and their business is to set goods off OF CREDIT IN TRADE, AND HOW A TRADESMAN OUGHT TO VALUE AND IMPROVE IT: OF CREDIT IN TRADE, AND HOW A TRADESMAN OUGHT TO VALUE AND IMPROVE IT: 17221 fifty thousand people died of the disease in that city, and great alarm more or less; but, from the time that the plague first began in St. Giles''s Parish, it was observed that the ordinary burials increased in having lived in Longacre, near the infected houses, had removed for fear no, though they lived in the house with people that were infected. and some houses having been shut up in the city, and some people being ORDERS CONCERNING INFECTED HOUSES, AND PERSONS SICK OF THE PLAGUE. two houses to remove either his sound or his infected people to his sick infected people were, as I have said, ordinarily carried in them to people coming on as if it had been a great number; and they came on, as people appeared abroad in the streets at the same time that the houses confined with infected people in the houses where they lived. 2051 son, in the County of Cornwall, was born Dumb, and continued so for Fiftyeight years; and how, some days before he died, he came to his Speech; published at large by a better hand, I shall only observe in the general, a little, and in a very short time was so far recovered, to the great and, in a short time, my fit will return; and the next day, which I some short observations behind me, and likewise to discover some things 5. Among your principal observations upon human life, let it be always one to take notice what a great deal both of time and ease that man gains The principal business of human life is run through within the short 2. About this time a man with a double head shall arrive in Britain from Europe; but these shall continue but for a short time, and at last 2052 In the Pride, Insolence, and exorbitant Wages of our Women, Servants, their dress; nay, very often the maid shall be much the finer of the two. the servant is sure to pick a hole in the person''s coat who shall not pay a maid shall have eight pounds per annum in a gentleman''s or merchant''s This custom of warning, as practised by our maid-servants, is now become wages, makes a mutiny among the men-servants, and puts them upon raising their wages too; so that in a little time our servants will become our of which such maid-servants, who have lived in that parish seven years in servant-maid; she, not knowing me, asked for my sister; pray, madam, said In great families, indeed, where many servants are required, those good reasons indeed when they object against giving a servant his or her servant, who among other things is to clean his master''s shoes; but our 26940 The Duke of Argyll sat in the House of Lords as the Earl of Greenwich called, Atalantis Major, a famous well known Island, tho'' much Great Council; the Nobility of that Part of the Island which were thus World, as long as those fortunate Generals commanded, her Affairs were and Favourites of the great Queen of the Island, as had now come to a the great Meeting of the States of that Country, several times; in honourable Command in the Armies of Atalantis Major, and being the He was a General in the Armys of Atalantis Major and excepting the commanded, he might in time be a great Man; at present, having all the Major, and was Captain General and Commander in Chief; the other, High of the great Opinion the Commander had of the Prince''s Courage; and all elected to the great Royal Council of thy Country; and should the 30159 thinking, ''tis a Satire upon the English nation, to tell them, they their ancient families, and being true-born; whereas ''tis impossible These sort of people, who call themselves true-born, and tell long the better or the worse for their ancestors: our English nation may nations will dispute it with them; but for long originals, and ancient true-born families of English, I would advise them to wave the this is a thing so ridiculous, in a nation derived from foreigners, as the king and his friends; as if I meant the English as a nation, are to reduce the liberties and religion of this nation into the hands of That vain ill-natured thing, an Englishman. For wise men say ''tis as dangerous a thing, The good of subjects is the end of kings; If kings by foreign priests and armies reign, The good old king ''tis thought was very loth 30344 With this thing called a husband I lived eight years in good fashion, done so, "Come, Amy," says he, "with your mistress''s leave, you shall thing as that." "Why, madam," says Amy, "I hope you won''t deny him if he "But that I know you to be a very honest girl, Amy," says I, "you would from your friends at London." "Well, Amy," says he then (having a little little time, Mrs Amy?" says my lord. madam," says she to Amy, "but though I lived near two years in the In a word, Amy went, and was gone five long hours; but when she came This, Amy thought, it was time enough to tell me of when she came over; When Amy came to me, "Now, my lady," says she, "what do you think of Amy, and having told her our discourse, she said she knew not what to 31053 things to come; superior or inferior, GOD and the Devil, fill up in some sense be said, no man has seen the Devil at any time; all gives but very little light into any thing of the Devil''s Story before Of the Power of the Devil at the Time of the Creation of this World; In a Word, Satan left to himself as a Devil, and to the Power, which the Devil had upon his Hands in the World; for, as I have said, till himself, tho'' all the World knows him to have a foolish Devil in him, certainly did, or we have room to think the DEVIL knows less of Things Devil acting by this Cloven-Foot, as a Machine, has done great Things in But the Devil, as he is God of the World, has one particular Advantage, foretel Things to come, which, ''tis said, the Devil himself cannot 32139 publish this matter at this time, among many other good reasons which I majesty with crimes that his worst enemy could not think of without majesty''s own words, that he knew no prince in Europe so fit to be king her majesty declared, that she left all that matter to a certain person, Having said thus much of the obligations laid on me, and the persons by The next thing that followed the change was the peace: no man can say which I think no man that was in the interest of the pretender, nay, or the least favourable word of the persons, the designs, or friends of words than other men durst speak it at that time, that I did not like It is true, good men have been used thus in former times; and all the book since the queen''s death, yet a great many things are called by my 32384 Henries; manufactures were planted, navigation increased, the people began which England above all nations in the world should improve the advantages On the other hand, the people of England have run up their manufactures to tell us; the trade of our woollen manufacture being evidently increased encouragement to our people, to increase and improve their trade; and the People of England for Increase of their Commerce, and Improvement of goods, and that the demand of English manufactures in particular increases their woollen manufactures; when it is apparent they work up all the wool to ruin the manufacturers, not improve the trade. is it, that we do not improve this trade, and increase the consumption of people of England increase the home consumption of their woollen trade of the kingdom; if our wearing foreign silk manufactures did increasing trade in general; I say I am for encouraging new manufactures 32404 Some Thoughts for suppressing Robberies in all the Public Roads of little mite, humbly offered for the public welfare, at your majesty''s lately complimented with a Discovery to Prevent Street Robberies; laid down a plain and practicable scheme for the total suppression and prevention of street robberies, which scheme has been approved of by scheme, generously offered for the public good, will meet with as fair a Let not the reader think I run from my subject if I search the bottom of Let the watch be composed of stout able-bodied men, and of those a If a housekeeper break, or a house is empty, the poor watchman ought not Let each watchman be provided with a horn, to sound an alarm, or in time A street, court, lane, alley, or other place, where the number of houses persons after dark may now and then go a little way round about by 32405 A man who has the public good in view, ought not in the least to be Upon second thought, I think colleges for university education might be murder of their bastard children; and, to the shame of good government, gives wicked murderers means to escape and commit fresh sins, to which Fields; nay, Punch''s opera may pass for a lower kind of academy. persons when out of place, or living too long on their own hands, our sure it is high time to begin the work, by clearing the public streets barbarous abuse of the holy marriage state, to send him to the house of When by this means a wicked husband has driven a poor creature mad, and murder is connived at, we shall no doubt have enough, nay, too much of If a housekeeper break, or a house is empty, the poor watchman ought not 35774 great many of my men to run away; so I resolved neither to come near time sending two-and-thirty of her men on board the great ship, to were come to the shore, and made the signal, which our men in the ship As soon as my men came near the shore, they saw plainly that it was a men from all the rest for our new ship; and who, when he came, gave me a came on board and took in all their goods, and, as we were told, carried We came away from hence after seven days'' stay, having observed little the great river to the south shore, to see what kind of a country was to and our men said they saw people upon it on the south side, but we went two days'' time so great a quantity there was, that our men had taken 36587 Mrs. Bargrave lives; who believes his kinswoman to be of so discerning Then says Mrs. Veal, My dear friend, I am come Says Mrs. Bargrave, I thought you were like the rest She said, Yes. Says Mrs. Veal, Fetch it. admiring friendship, Mrs. Veal said, Dear Mrs. Bargrave, I shall love discourse, which the apparition put in much finer words than Mrs. Bargrave said she could pretend to, and as much more than she can Talking at this rate, Mrs. Bargrave thought that a fit was coming upon Then Mrs. Veal asked for Mrs. Bargrave''s daughter; she said, she was Monday morning she sent a person to captain Watson''s, to know if Mrs. Veal was there. Says Mrs. Bargrave, How came you to order matters so strangely? she said, No. Now, the things which Mrs. Veal''s apparition would have I asked Mrs. Bargrave several times, if she was sure she 36628 think a very good reason against the succession of the house of These are some good reasons why the succession of the house of Hanover the protestant religion; yet they brought in the pretender according succession of Hanover is not consistent with these things, what reason vomit of popery, as when the pretender comes most certain it is that filth together; the popery and the pretender will come all up again, my reasons against the protestant succession; I think they cannot be and that succession being limited upon King James''s abdication, which to the common people is, whether the pretender was the lawful son of the said King James and his said pretended son from the government of real son of King James; this returns upon the right of the parliament to limit the succession, supposing King James had had no son at all; reasonable that a nation should alter an established succession to 36656 INSINUATIONS OF PAPISTS AND JACOBITES IN FAVOUR OF THE PRETENDER. To thee the oppressed protestants of France owed, for some ages ago, To thee the present protestant nations[8] of Europe owe their being at parliament[12] is he called the great deliverer of the nation? and all the favourers of popery and tyranny sunk at once; King James the ancient enemies of this nation, and of our religion, the French, the said King James and his said pretended son from the government of protestant nation to be governed by a popish prince. pretender be the lawful son of King James, or whether he is, or will what a king this pretender must be; a their country, and for the preserving the protestant religion, will own liberties, and for the protestant religion; if you fall in with popery and a French pretender; if you forget the revolution, and King 36681 majesty, to inquire seriously, whether the public peace, the queen''s employing those sort of people: For, what if the queen should die? think of bringing in the pretender upon this protestant nation, even much need of the favour of the queen of Great Britain, whose power it making any attempt in Britain during the life of the queen, or to of the pretender during this queen''s reign, or during this ministry''s nation, whether we respect liberty, religion, property, or public the foundation of the late revolution, established law and right being that her majesty is our queen by virtue of the revolution, and that is spared to these nations, we have great reason to believe we shall make the nation safe and easy in case the queen should die: nor are they were to hope and believe, that when the queen shall die, their liberty from those obligations when the queen shall die. 36694 Stroke of Providence, and think ''tis a mark of Heavens Displeasure proportion''d to the general National Crime we are all guilty of? ''Tis too unhappy for England, that Men of immoderate Principles are of the Opinion, tis not a National Crime in that Country, that is, In short, ''tis hard to find any party or profession of Men among us, with the Dissenters, if it were not for these men of Moderation, they While Moderation of principles seems thus the general Sin of Parties, the Nations Interest, to the Missfortune of a few Men. Perhaps God may If these are not the Generation of Men that must do the Nations If any man ask me why these men shou''d not perfect the Nation Peace as These men, ''tis true, Cry out of the danger of the Church, but can Nation to Spue out from among them these Men of Storms, that Peace, 36769 greater things from the pretender, if he should come hither, than he pretender, and the frightful things said of his coming, and of his that the advantages of the pretender''s succession are really greater the nation in case of his coming in, such as popery, slavery, French prospect of the power and greatness of France; then we shall on the must be our great advantage to have the pretender be our king, that we hope for under the happy government of the pretender, must needs be pretender we must entertain French methods of government, such as coming of the pretender, and consequently one of the good reasons why As to the gratitude of the pretender to the king of France, But we have yet greater advantages attending this nation by the coming they ought to favour the coming of the pretender, as the great benefit have the real advantages of receiving the pretender laid before them, 37505 Actions of his grace, John, Duke of Marlborough, published 20 Defoe remarks, "our General wants neither Conduct or Courage" and The Life of Marlborough is part of a stream of pamphlets which Defoe was writing Reasons for a Peace; Or, the War at an End. Taken in chronological order, Defoe''s 1711 pamphlets indicate two In the Life, Defoe defends the general from the charge of avarice, Defoe''s concern--even Marlborough could be mistaken in battle and lose, Defoe''s Life of Marlborough serves as a kind of barometer for the age party of the King''s Forces; both his Majesty and my Lord Marlborough Places at Court and in the Army: I write this to the common People Lord has done for the French King, for a great many Years to this that a great General, I mean such a one as the Duke of Marlborough, John Duke of Marlborough, has a great share of it. 37992 the North Seas; and when other of our Men gat away, some one Way, some keeping the Shore all the Way in View till we came the Length of St. Julien, in the Latitude of 48 Degrees, 22 Minutes South; here we put in chac''d a great Ship and a Bark all Night, and the next Day; that they took and all our Goods, into the great Ship and the Sloop, and so take the new Comrades on Board a good Ship, it would be very hard to oblige them to resolv''d not by any Means to let the Governor on Shore know our Ship''s we came in; and if we pretended to a great Ship, our Money would not hold we presently took the Ship, and having secur''d her Men, we chac''d the other Nor were we so strong in Men or Ships, or any Thing like it. 40580 Time, they (the Pyrates) shall take Fleets of Ships; it looks as if one was Merchant Ships; and if the Pyrates are not to be met with by the Men of War Captain Walron having mann''d a Sloop with 30 Hands out of his Ship''s Man of War; then she cannonaded the Pyrate Ship of 22 Guns, that lay behind took him and his Men aboard the great Ship, and sent a Number of other Commander of a Pyrate Ship, Sloop, or Vessel, forty Pounds; for every private Man taken on Board such Ship, Sloop, or Vessel, ten Pounds; and, that for every Pyrate, which shall be taken by any Ship, Sloop or Vessel, Ship, but as soon as he came on Board, was told that Captain Roberts had Pyrate Ships Crews, were Men entered on the Coast of Africa, not many Mortimer had two Men in his Ship, and the Pyrate Captain had two, 41063 Heaven lately spoke, but few knew what it said; Let me be where I will I heard the Storm, I felt the mighty Shock, and saw the Night, Since Storms are then the Nation''s Choice, Be Storms their Portion, said the Heavenly Voice: And fill''d with loudest Storms the trembling Air: The mighty Genius to my Thought appear''d, Storms which the Monarch more than Death or Battel fear''d. Sensless of Danger, or the mighty Hand, But O ye Mighty Ships of War! Since ''tis suppos''d the Men of War Hell shook, for Devils Dread Almighty Power, But Devils nor Men the Being of God deny''d, Till Men of late found out New Ways to sin, But Storms and Tempests are above our Rules, I plainly heard it, tho'' I''m dead. They say this was a High-Church Storm, That Church-men can Rebel. Let fair Pretences fill the Mouths of Men, 54925 the Year --25; in which long interval of Time, the Attendance you gave NEAR eight Years, was a long Time to continue under the frequent READ, BELIEVE AND PRACTISE, THE LOADSTONE SHALL BE YOUR CURE, WITH my wonderful Preservative, which has not only prov''d so great a friend manner of communicating the Recipe, your Thoughts of the Loadstone AS for Genii or familiar Spirits, good and bad, believ''d and manner, (viz.) The Knight, having hitherto only heard the Voice of to follow the Spirit''s Advice, in taking Plantane Juice for the Cure of pretend to determine, tho'', for ought I know, wonderful Cures may be perform''d many considerable Cures by this occult Method, to the great himself to his good Friend and Neighbour, Sir Kenelm Digby, from the Air, and I doubt not, but in a few Days Time, I shall with the Use of the Loadstone, having wrought many wonderful Cures 561 the villains that set them on shore in the island, came a little way mouth of that great river; and that the savages who came to my island men went to work, and the Spaniards came and helped them: and in a few With the seven Spaniards came one of the three savages, who, as I said, came so near our long-boat, that our men beckoned with their hands to captain told me he would go and help his men, let what would come. came back, six men should keep the two boats, and six more come after us; men came to me, and told me he would not have me trouble myself to come the men on board, had with great dexterity brought the ship almost to came by the country seat of this great man, we saw him in a little place 57005 l. a Man; miss a great Booty; send away their Prisoners; takes Captain Men telling Captain Misson, that the European Ships bound for Ship was boarded by those in the Sloop, who took up the Crew of the said the Boat was returned towards the Ship, two of his Men came up to him, Pyrate, on board of which was Captain White; they join''d Company, came The Pyrates having here victualled, they sail''d for the Bay of St. Augustine, where they took in between 70 and 80 Men, who had belonged he was but a young Pyrate, tho'' an old Commander of a Merchant Man. Those who push''d for boarding then, desired Captain Boreman, already Island of Johanna, took, in Company of two other Pyrates he met at St. Mary''s, the Cassandra East-India Man, commanded by Captain James the Ship, and what Goods were left on board; or the Pyrates would soon 6422 during this time, the boat coming often on shore, the men brought us long-boat, the ship stood away to the south-east, and in four hours'' a-thieving, till from a little vessel we came to a great ship, and so we west, he presently let me know there was a great river a little further till we came to the Cape of Good Hope, or north to the country that lay After having with great difficulty got over this river, we came into a sea-shore as along the river, till we came to the Gold Coast, which, he In a little time they came quite up to us; and I saw friend William men enough to keep together to man the great ship; so I took Captain Thus they went away, and William came on board, and gave us a full Our men had but just brought the ship to rights again as they came up to 7089 thing in the Nature of his Country-men which secur''d them from the The hot Men of the Solunarian Church were for knocking the Crolians all the Great Men of the Nation, tho'' Solunarians, yet that were Forces of the new Prince, for all the Solunarian Church joyn''d with that Time, with what Fury the hot Men of the Solunarian Church acted Nor is this all, for as a great many of these Solunarian Church-Men ''Tis true these were great things, but ''twas thought all this might the banish''d King, how impolitick these high Solunarian Church-men Solunarian Church Men had laid for the Ruin of the Crolians Interest, The Crolians in the Moon are Men of large Souls, and Generously stand Solunarian Church and the Crolian Dissenters in the World of the Senseless Thing, to make a Man a King of a Country he has not one 7779 "Of Captain Misson and His Crew," one of Defoe''s most remarkable and pirate, Captain Bellamy, boards a merchant ship from Boston, he attacks Government on Captain Misson''s ship, the Victoire, and in the colony asking the negroes to join his crew, Misson tells his men that In the history "Of Captain Misson and his Crew," Defoe decided to pursue this Engagement, Caraccioli came to Misson and saluted him Captain, Captain Misson had from the Boat, which returning with an Answer, saw Though Misson''s Ship pass''d for a French Man of War, yet his Captain Misson called all Hands upon Deck, and told them, as The English Captain was killed in the Engagement, and 14 of his Men: Men telling Captain Misson, that the European Ships bound for that the English Men who were of Misson''s Crew, and his his Men, and carried on Board his Ships. 7799 When Robinson saw the ships put out to sea, he would watch them till So the next morning Robinson went to the store and began work. Robinson''s father soon noticed that his son was no longer attending Robinson came in his father arose from his chair and looked him long He pointed to a long ship and said, "My father sails to-day in Robinson worked at enlarging his shelter a little every day. Now Robinson had heard that savages take two dry pieces of wood and Every day Robinson went hunting and shot a rabbit, but the meat would With his bow and arrow, Robinson went hunting every day. As Robinson thought, it came to him that there was still place for Robinson felt great joy over this new home. [Illustration: ROBINSON AND FRIDAY SAILING THE BOAT] After Robinson had looked through the ship he began to plan the way