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

By Daniel Defoe

This is a famous 1729 pamphlet by Daniel Defoe that he wrote under the name of Andrew Moreton Esq., portrayed as a disgruntled middle-class older man deeply concerned about the increase in criminality around the 1720s. He inquired about social and moral issues like the increase in highway robberies, the inefficiency of the night watch, the "infestation" of prostitutes, beggars, etc.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 25, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066208394

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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Daniel Defoe

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

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4064066208394

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SECOND THOUGHTS ARE BEST

FURTHER IMPROVEMENT

SCHEME

STREET ROBBERIES

By Andrew Moreton , Esq.

LONDON

TO THE

KING'S

Most Excellent

MAJESTY,

SACRED AND MOST AUGUST!

THE PREFACE.

SECOND THOUGHTS, &c.

SECOND

THOUGHTS ARE BEST:

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OR A

FURTHER IMPROVEMENT

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Of a Late

SCHEME

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TO PREVENT

STREET ROBBERIES:

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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.

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By Andrew Moreton, Esq.

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LONDON:

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

[Price Six Pence.

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TO THE

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KING'S

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Most Excellent

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MAJESTY,

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SACRED AND MOST AUGUST!

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Permit a loyal subject,