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The life of a man of letters is not as a rule eventful. It may be rich in spiritual experiences, but it seldom is rich in active adventure. We ask his biographer to tell us what were his habits of composition, how he talked, how he bore himself in the discharge of his duties to his family, his neighbors, and himself; what were his beliefs on the great questions that concern humanity. We desire to know what he said and wrote, not what he did beyond the study and the domestic or the social circle. The chief external facts in his career are the. | Daniel Defoe by William Minto 1 CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. Daniel Defoe by William Minto The Project Gutenberg EBook of Daniel Defoe by William Minto 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 Title Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe by William Minto Author William Minto 2 Release Date February 3 2005 EBook 14892 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DANIEL DEFOE Produced by Juliet Sutherland Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. DANIEL DEFOE BY WILLIAM MINTO NEW YORK HARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERS FRANKLIN SQUARE ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS. EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY. JOHNSON Leslie Stephen. GIBBON . Morison. SCOTT . Hutton. SHELLEY . Symonds. HUME . Huxley. GOLDSMITH William Black DEFOE William Minto. BURNS . Shairp. sPeNSER . Church. THACKERAY Anthony Trollope. BURKE John Morley. MILTON Mark Pattison. HAWTHORNE Henry James Jr. SOUTHEY E. Dowden. CHAUCER . Ward BUNYAN . Froude. COWPER Goldwin Smith. POPE Leslie Stephen. BYRON John Nichol. LOCKE Thomas Fowler. WORDSWORTH F. Myers. DRYDEN G. Saintsbury. LANDOR Sidney Colvin. DE QUINCEY David Masson. LAMB Alfred Ainger. BENTLEY . Jebb. Dickens . Ward. GRAY . Gosse. SWIFT Leslie Stephen. STERNE . Traill. MACAULAY J. Cotter Morison. FIELDING Austin Dobson. SHERIDAN Mrs. Oliphant. ADDISON . Courthope. BACON . Church. COLERIDGE . Traill. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY . Symonds. PUBLISHED BY HARPER BROTHERS NEW YORK. PREFACE. There are three considerable biographies of Defoe--the first by George Chalmers published in 1786