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    Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies
    Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies
    Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies
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    Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies

    By Daniel Defoe

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies
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    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was an English author, journalist, merchant and secret agent. His career in business was varied, with substantial success countered by enough debt to warrant his arrest. Political pamphleteering also landed Defoe in prison but, in a novelistic turn of events, an Earl helped free him on the condition that he become an intelligence agent. The author wrote widely on many topics, including politics, travel, and proper manners, but his novels, especially Robinson Crusoe, remain his best remembered work.

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      Second Thoughts are Best - Daniel Defoe

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further

      Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies, by Daniel Defoe

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      Title: Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies

      Author: Daniel Defoe

      Release Date: May 17, 2010 [EBook #32404]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SECOND THOUGHTS ARE BEST ***

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      Transcriber's Note

      Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this ebook.

      This reprinted by D. A. Talboys, Oxford, 1841.

      SECOND

      THOUGHTS ARE BEST:

      OR A

      FURTHER IMPROVEMENT

      Of a Late

      SCHEME

      TO PREVENT

      STREET ROBBERIES:

      BY WHICH

      Our Streets will be strongly guarded, and so gloriously illuminated, that any part of London will be as safe and pleasant at Midnight as at Noonday; and Burglary totally impracticable:

      With

      Some Thoughts for suppressing Robberies in all the Public Roads of England, &c.

      Humbly

      Offered for the Good of his Country, submitted to the Consideration of the Parliament, and dedicated to his sacred Majesty King George II.

      By Andrew Moreton, Esq.

      LONDON:

      Printed for W. Meadows, at the Angel in Cornhill; and sold by J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane. 1729.

      [Price Six Pence.

      TO THE

      KING'S

      Most Excellent

      MAJESTY,

      SACRED AND MOST AUGUST!

      Permit a loyal subject, in the sincerity of his heart, to press through the crowds of courtiers who surround your royal person, and lay his little mite, humbly offered for the public welfare, at your majesty's feet.

      Happy is it for me, as well as the whole kingdom, we have a king of such humanity and affability; a king naturalized to us, a king who loves us, a king in whose person as well as mind, the whole hero appears: the king of our hearts; the king of our wishes!

      Those who are dissatisfied with such a monarch, deserve to be abandoned of God, and have the devil

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