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xxv, 289 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
The aim, purpose, and manner of the review -- A short digression upon the consequences of truth -- Mr. Review defends Mr. Defoe -- Defoe's carries a stick -- For knaves-the contempt of silence -- The review scorns its critics -- Where's the proof? -- His proper employment -- Assassins defied -- Principles, principles, principles -- Mr. Review treads the milky way -- Defoe defends his reputation -- Defoe spends the weekend in jail -- Mr. Review measures his courage -- The review reviewed -- Of truth, and freedom of the press -- A proposed tax examined -- Of taxing the press -- The nature of satire -- Idiot review and scurrilous examiner -- Journalist dyer and rebuked -- The publisher of the review kidnapped -- Mr. Review apologizes to the court -- Of divinity in trade -- Trade, the bulwark of England -- Consumer credit the invisible phantom -- Of the laws about insolvent debtors -- Mr. Review plumps for free trade -- The trade in Baubles and trifles -- Money, money, money -- Refugees: england's good fortune -- Wages, people, prosperity -- Circulation in trade, and a suit of clothes -- Defoe's plea for the refugee -- Defoe's part in the union of Scotland and England -- A united nations for 1709 -- The war makers -- A toast to King William -- Electioneering, English style -- The union forever -- England not imperialist -- A pun upon peace makers -- Mr. Spectator, Mr. Review, and Mr. Milton -- Thieves and tyrants of Merry England -- Mr. Review as chanticleer -- Petticoat government -- A digression upon witches -- On the reformation of manners -- Mr. Review defends the Quakers -- Exit Mohock -- The plague at Elseneur -- England's coffeehouse generals -- The valor and ignorance of England's gentry -- Brides beware! -- An abused wife's appeal -- Immoral audience and moral playwright -- Hamlet repairs a church -- A project to suppress the stage -- Oxford rebuked -- Upon love and smoking -- The duel of lord Mohun and the Duke of Hamilton -- A tilt at profanity -- Mr. spectator disputed -- The luxury-loving middle class -- Give me not poverty, lest I steal! -- Barren Britain |
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Great Britain -- History -- Anne, 1702-1714 -- Sources.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
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Great Britain. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Added Author |
Payne, William Lytton, 1904-
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