The dumb philosopher [electronic resource] : or Great-Britain's wonder, containing I. A faithful and very surprizing account how Dickory Cronke, a tinner's son in the county of Cornwal, was born dumb, and continued so for 58 years; and how some days before he died, he came to his speech: With Memoirs of his Life, and the Manner of his Death. II. A Declaration of his Faith and Principles in Religion: With a Collection of Select Meditations, Composed in his Retirement. III. His Prophetical Observations upon the Affairs of Europe, more particularly of Great-Britain, from 1720, to 1729. The whole extracted from his Original Papers, and confirmed by unquestionable Authority. To which is annexed. His Elegy, written by a young Cornish Gentleman, of Exeter Coll. in Oxford; with an Epitaph by another Hand.
1719
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The dumb philosopher [electronic resource] : or Great-Britain's wonder, containing I. A faithful and very surprizing account how Dickory Cronke, a tinner's son in the county of Cornwal, was born dumb, and continued so for 58 years; and how some days before he died, he came to his speech: With Memoirs of his Life, and the Manner of his Death. II. A Declaration of his Faith and Principles in Religion: With a Collection of Select Meditations, Composed in his Retirement. III. His Prophetical Observations upon the Affairs of Europe, more particularly of Great-Britain, from 1720, to 1729. The whole extracted from his Original Papers, and confirmed by unquestionable Authority. To which is annexed. His Elegy, written by a young Cornish Gentleman, of Exeter Coll. in Oxford; with an Epitaph by another Hand.
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London : printed for Tho. Bickerton, at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row, [1719]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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64p. ; 8⁰.
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Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Chalmers, Wilson, Lee, Trent, Hutchins, Moore, Novak ("not certainly")). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.
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Moore, 422
English Short Title Catalog, T69706.
English Short Title Catalog, T69706.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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