| An Essay Upon Projects Contributor(s): Defoe, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798726212357 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Business & Economics |
| Dewey: 338.942 |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.36 lbs) 122 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Necessity, which is allowed to be the mother of invention, has so violently agitated the wits of men at this time that it seems not at all improper, by way of distinction, to call it the Projecting Age. For though in times of war and public confusions the like humour of invention has seemed to stir, yet, without being partial to the present, it is, I think, no injury to say the past ages have never come up to the degree of projecting and inventing, as it refers to matters of negotiation and methods of civil polity, which we see this age arrived to. Nor is it a hard matter to assign probable causes of the perfection in this modern art. I am not of their melancholy opinion who ascribe it to the general poverty of the nation, since I believe it is easy to prove the nation itself, taking it as one general stock, is not at all diminished or impoverished by this long, this chargeable war, but, on the contrary, was never richer since it was inhabited. |