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    Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances; Exemplified in the Pride, Insolence, and Exorbitant Wages of Our Women, Servants, Footmen, &c.
    Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances; Exemplified in the Pride, Insolence, and Exorbitant Wages of Our Women, Servants, Footmen, &c.
    Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances; Exemplified in the Pride, Insolence, and Exorbitant Wages of Our Women, Servants, Footmen, &c.
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    Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances; Exemplified in the Pride, Insolence, and Exorbitant Wages of Our Women, Servants, Footmen, &c.

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances; Exemplified in the Pride, Insolence, and Exorbitant Wages of Our Women, Servants, Footmen, &c.
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    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), son of a London butcher, James Foe, took the pen name Defoe in 1703, the year he was pilloried and jailed for publishing a notorious attack on the religious hypocrisy and intolerance of the English political class. His imprisonment ruined his lucrative trade as a merchant but made him a popular figure with the public. Freed by the intervention of rising statesman Robert Harley, Defoe became a renowned journalist, but also a government spy. Robinson Crusoe, his first work of fiction, was published in his sixtieth year, but was soon followed by other lasting novels, including The Life and Adventures of Mr Duncan Campbell, Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year and Roxana.

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      Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances; Exemplified in the Pride, Insolence, and Exorbitant Wages of Our Women, Servants, Footmen, &c. - Daniel Defoe

      Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, by Daniel Defoe

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      Title: Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business

      Author: Daniel Defoe

      Release Date: April 20, 2005 [eBook #2052]

      Language: English

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

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS IS NOBODY'S

      BUSINESS***

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

      EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS IS NOBODY’S BUSINESS

      or,

      PRIVATE ABUSES, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES:

      EXEMPLIFIED

      In the Pride, Insolence, and exorbitant Wages of our Women, Servants, Footmen, &c.

      WITH

      A Proposal for Amendment of the same; as also for clearing the Streets of those Vermin called Shoe-Cleaners, and substituting in their stead many Thousands of industrious Poor, now ready to starve.  With divers other Hints of great Use to the Public.

      Humbly submitted the Consideration of our Legislature, and the careful Perusal of all Masters and Mistresses of Families.

      BY ANDREW MORETON, Esq.

      The Fifth Edition, with the Addition of a Preface.

      LONDON:

      Printed for W. MEADOWS, in Cornhill; and sold by T. WARNER, at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster Row; A. DODD, without Temple Bar; and E. NUTT, at the Royal Exchange.  1725.

      Price Six Pence.]

      THE PREFACE

      Since this little book appeared in print, it has had no less than three answers, and fresh attacks are daily expected from the powers of Grub-street; but should threescore antagonists more arise, unless they say more to the purpose than the forementioned, they shall not tempt me to reply.

      Nor shall I engage in a paper war, but leave my book to answer for itself, having advanced nothing therein but evident truths, and incontestible matters of fact.

      The general objection is against my style; I do not set up for an author, but write only to be understood, no matter how plain.

      As my intentions are good, so have they had the good fortune to meet with approbation from the sober and substantial part of mankind; as for the vicious and vagabond, their ill-will is my ambition.

      It is with uncommon satisfaction I see the magistracy begin to put the laws against vagabonds in force with the utmost vigour, a great many of those vermin, the japanners, having lately been taken up and sent to the several work-houses in and about this city; and indeed high time, for they grow every day more and more pernicious.

      My project for putting watchmen under commissioners, will, I hope, be put in practice; for it is scarce safe to go by water unless you know your man.

      As for the maid-servants, if I undervalue myself to take notice of them, as they are pleased to say, it is because they overvalue themselves so much they ought to be taken notice of.

      This makes the guilty take my subject by the wrong end, but any impartial reader may find,

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