Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Dickory Cronke: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder
    Dickory Cronke: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder
    Dickory Cronke: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder
    Ebook64 pages48 minutes

    Dickory Cronke: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder

    By Daniel Defoe

    ()

    Switch to audiobook
    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2004
    Author

    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.

    Read more from Daniel Defoe

    Related to Dickory Cronke

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Jeremias Gotthelf

      Feb 28, 2020

      Jeremias Gotthelf
      27 min read

    • Article

      The Case For More Royals

      Feb 29, 2024

      I WAS A HIGH SHERIFF A FEW YEARS BACK. THE ancient office is held now only for a year in each county as the Crown’s representative to all aspects of law and order, as well as the fire service. You can prioritise whatever you want, being in theory ans

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Loading Brush

      Sep 1, 2017

      The Art of Loading Brush
      27 min read

    • Article

      Odd Jobs

      Jul 19, 2017

      Odd Jobs
      3 min read

    • Article

      Our Library

      Jan 27, 2020

      Grandstanders often talk as if their views are utterly obvious. Anyone competent at making moral judgements would surely come to the same conclusions. This sort of talk can be used to signal that one’s moral sensibilities are more finely tuned than t

      2 min read

    • Article

      A Likely Story

      Feb 9, 2020

      A Likely Story
      7 min read

    • Article

      Sense And Sensationalism

      Jul 1, 2020

      Sense And Sensationalism
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Stackpole Legend

      Mar 1, 2024

      The Stackpole Legend
      13 min read

    • Article

      The Wisdom Of Voltaire

      Sep 7, 2022

      YEARS ago, in a happy London interlude, we lived in Covent Garden, above Rules. Over the pavement opposite, fixed to the brickwork at the back of the Vaudeville Theatre, a plaque stated that Voltaire had lived in Maiden Lane. It was 1728, and he was

      2 min read

    • Article

      5 STEPS to 160,000

      Feb 15, 2022

      5 STEPS to 160,000
      10 min read

    • Article

      A Carolean Paean

      Apr 13, 2023

      A Carolean Paean
      7 min read

    • Article

      Your LETTERS

      Dec 10, 2021

      Your LETTERS
      6 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Nov 8, 2021

      It’s a brave and undoubtedly foolish author who produces a novel that is in effect a declaration of war on the entire publishing industry. Not one who values career longevity, say, or a future of cosy, drunken lunches on expense accounts, or, like, a

      6 min read

    • Article

      As Hot As A Qantas Hostie*

      Jun 2, 2021

      As Hot As A Qantas Hostie*
      5 min read

    • Article

      I’m the Quentin Crisp of Deal

      May 4, 2022

      Young people like to embrace the mantra ‘Be kind’. We’ve seen a great display of kindness in the many, many offers to host Ukrainian refugees in the middle of the tormenting war they have experienced. I wished I could invite a refugee into my abode i

      3 min read

    • Article

      The First Futurist

      May 30, 2024

      The First Futurist
      7 min read

    • Article

      Michael Kohlhaas

      Aug 28, 2019

      Michael Kohlhaas
      13 min read

    • Article

      A Second Home Is Where The Heart Is

      Jul 27, 2022

      The prospect of remaining in Wiltshire for the four-day Jubilee celebrations was denied me at a stroke by the arrival of a pamphlet through the cottage letter box. Sterner critics might accuse me of lacking community spirit. I confess I had been drea

      3 min read

    • Article

      My Irish question

      Aug 21, 2022

      My Irish question
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Trials of Jared K.

      Apr 22, 2020

      The Trials of Jared K.
      6 min read

    Reviews for Dickory Cronke

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Dickory Cronke - Daniel Defoe

      Dickory Cronke, by Daniel Defoe

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Dickory Cronke, by Daniel Defoe

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Dickory Cronke

      The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder

      Author: Daniel Defoe

      Release Date: April 20, 2005 [eBook #2051]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DICKORY CRONKE***

      Transcribed form the 1889 George Bell and Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

      DICKORY CRONKE

      THE

      DUMB PHILOSOPHER,

      OR,

      GREAT BRITAIN’S WONDER;

      CONTAINING:

      I.  A faithful and very surprising Account how Dickory Cronke, a Tinner’s son, in the County of Cornwall, was born Dumb, and continued so for Fifty-eight 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 COLLEGE IN OXFORD.

      WITH

      AN EPITAPH BY ANOTHER HAND.

      Non quis, sed quid.

      LONDON:

      Printed for and Sold by THOMAS BICKERTON, at

      the Crown, in Paternoster Row.  1719.

      PREFACE

      The formality of a preface to this little book might have been very well omitted, if it were not to gratify the curiosity of some inquisitive people, who, I foresee, will be apt to make objections against the reality of the narrative.

      Indeed the public has too often been imposed upon by fictitious stories, and some of a very late date, so that I think myself obliged by the usual respect which is paid to candid and impartial readers, to acquaint them, by way of introduction, with what they are to expect, and what they may depend upon, and yet with this caution too, that it is an indication of ill nature or ill manners, if not both, to pry into a secret that is industriously concealed.

      However, that there may be nothing wanting on my part, I do hereby assure the reader, that the papers from whence the following sheets were extracted, are now in town, in the custody of a person of unquestionable reputation, who, I will be bold to say, will not only be ready, but proud, to produce them upon a good occasion, and that I think is as much satisfaction as the nature of this case requires.

      As to the performance, it can signify little now to make an apology upon that account, any farther than this, that if the reader pleases he may take notice that what he has now before him was collected from a large bundle of papers, most of which were writ in shorthand, and very ill-digested.  However, this may be relied upon, that though the language is something altered, and now and then a word thrown in to help the expression, yet strict care has been taken to speak the author’s mind, and keep as close as possible to the meaning of the original.  For the design, I think there is nothing need be said in vindication of that.  Here is a dumb philosopher introduced to a wicked and degenerate generation, as a proper emblem of virtue and morality; and if the world could be persuaded to look upon him with candour and impartiality, and then to copy after him, the editor has gained his end, and would think himself sufficiently recompensed for his present trouble.

      PART I

      Among the many strange and surprising events that help to fill the accounts of this last century, I know none that merit more an entire credit, or are more fit to be preserved and handed

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1