DICKORY CRONKE

Dickory Cronke

by Daniel Defoe

DICKORY CRONKE, DICKORY CRONKE by Daniel Defoe
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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.