The Pacificator: "Law is but a heathen word for power"

By Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1660, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused with similar vigour. It is said that only the bible has been printed in more languages than Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is also noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel. He was extremely prolific and a very versatile writer, producing several hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of economic journalism though was made bankrupt on more on one occasion and usually mired in debt. In later life Defoe was often most seen on Sundays when bailiffs and the like could legally make no move on him. Allegedly it was whilst hiding from creditors that he died on April 24th, 1731. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, London.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Portable Poetry
• Release date: Jul 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781787374232

Daniel Defoe

English author Daniel Defoe was at times a trader, political activist, criminal, spy and writer, and is considered to be one of England’s first journalists. A prolific writer, Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names over the course of a career in which he produced more than five hundred written works. Defoe is best-known for his novels detailing the adventures of the castaway Robinson Crusoe, which helped establish and popularize the novel in eighteenth century England. In addition to Robinson Crusoe, Defoe penned other famous works including Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, Captain Jack, Moll Flanders and Roxana. Defoe died in 1731.

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The Pacificator by Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1660, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused with similar vigour.

It is said that only the bible has been printed in more languages than Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is also noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel. He was extremely prolific and a very versatile writer, producing several hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of economic journalism though was made bankrupt on more on one occasion and usually mired in debt.

In later life Defoe was often most seen on Sundays when bailiffs and the like could legally make no move on him.  Allegedly it was whilst hiding from creditors that he died on April 24th, 1731. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, London.

Index of Contents

THE PACIFICATOR

DANIEL DEFOE – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

DANIEL DEFOE – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE PACIFICATOR

What English Man, without Concern, can see

The Approach of Bleeding Britain's Destiny?

That Glorious Land which Justly did Preside,

For Wit and Wealth, o'r all the World beside?

In vain Victorious NASSAV did Advance

His Conquering Arms against the Power of France,

Since from those Conquests he is hardly come,

But here's a Civil War broke out at Home:

Britannia's Warlike Sons disturb the Isle,

Delighting one another to Dispoil,

Enur'd to Discord, Envy, and Debate,

Hereditary Frenzies of the State.

The Fruits of Ten Years War they now prevent,

By Civil Feuds, and Private Discontent.

The Peace We Gain'd! Does it so Cheap appear,

To Prize so Low, what We have bought so Dear?

The Blood, the Treasure, which has been Destroy'd!

Methinks We shou'd with War and Wounds be Cloy'd,

But 'twill not be,