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    Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe
    Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe
    Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe
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    Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe
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    Daniel Dafoe

    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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      Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe - Daniel Dafoe

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      Title: Augusta Triumphans

      Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe

      Author: Daniel Defoe

      Release Date: May 17, 2010 [eBook #32405]

      Language: English

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUGUSTA TRIUMPHANS***

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      The British Library shows second edition published 1729 and reprinted by D. A. Talboys, Oxford, 1841.

      AUGUSTA TRIUMPHANS:

      OR, THE

      WAY

      TO MAKE

      LONDON

      THE MOST FLOURISHING

      City in the Universe

      FIRST,

      CONCLUDING WITH

      An effectual Method to prevent Street Robberies.

      AND

      A Letter to Coll. Robinson, on account of the Orphans' Tax.

      By Andrew Moreton, Esq.

      THE SECOND EDITION.

      LONDON:

      Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick Lane, and sold by E. Nutt, at the Royal Exchange; A. Dodd, without Temple Bar; N. Blandford, at Charing Cross; and J. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall.

      [Price One Shilling.]

      AUGUSTA TRIUMPHANS:

      OR, THE

      WAY

      TO MAKE

      LONDON

      THE MOST FLOURISHING

      City in the Universe

      A man who has the public good in view, ought not in the least to be alarmed at the tribute of ridicule which scoffers constantly pay to projecting heads. It is the business of a writer, who means well, to go directly forward, without regard to criticism, but to offer his thoughts as they occur; and if in twenty schemes he hits but on one to the purpose, he ought to be excused failing in the nineteen for the twentieth sake. It is a kind of good action to mean well, and the intention ought to palliate the failure; but the English, of all people in the world, show least mercy to schemists, for they treat them in the vilest manner; whereas other nations give them fair play for their lives, which is the reason why we are esteemed so bad at invention.

      I have but a short time to live, nor would I waste my remaining thread of life in vain, but having often lamented sundry public abuses, and many schemes having occurred to my fancy, which to me carried an air of benefit, I was resolved to commit them to paper before my departure, and leave, at least, a testimony of my good will to my fellow-creatures.

      But of all my reflections, none was more constantly my companion than a deep sorrow for the present decay of learning among us, and the manifest corruption of education; we have been a brave and learned people, and are insensibly dwindling into an effeminate, superficial race. Our young gentlemen are sent to the universities, it is true, but not under restraint or correction as formerly; not to study, but to drink; not for furniture for the head, but a feather for the cap, merely to say they have been at Oxford or Cambridge, as if the air of those places inspired knowledge without application. It is true we ought to have those places in reverence for the many learned men they have sent us; but why must we go so far for knowledge? Why should a young gentleman be sent raw from the nursery to live on his own hands, to be liable to a thousand temptations, and run the risk of being snapped up by sharping jilts, with which both universities abound, who make our youth of fortune their prey, and have brought misery into too many good families? Not only the hazard of their healths from debauches of both kinds, but the waste of their precious time renders the sending them so far off very hazardous. Why should such a metropolis as

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