Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
_A Vindication of the Press_ is one of Defoe's most characteristic pamphlets and for this reason as well as for its rarity deserves reprinting. Besides the New York Public Library copy, here reproduced, I know of but one copy, which is in the Indiana University Library. Neithe...
And in the Practice of Physick, are not the present Professors infinitely obliged to the Discoveries and Recipes of _Aristotle_, _Galen_, &c? How much the World is oblig'd to th...
1. Chapter 1_A Vindication of the Press_ is one of Defoe's most characteristic pamphlets and for this reason as well as for its rarity deserves reprinting. Besides the New York Public Libra...
3. Chapter 3But to leave these general Observations, I proceed to my Point in Hand, the Qualification of Authors; Though I shall first take Notice, that the Business of every Author is to p...