| The True-Born Englishman Contributor(s): Defoe, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1508948674 ISBN-13: 9781508948674 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1801 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Physical Information: 0.08" H x 6" W x 9" (0.14 lbs) 38 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I confess myself something surpris'd to hear that I am taxed with bewraying my own nest, and abusing our nation, by discovering the meanness of our original, in order to make the English contemptible abroad and at home; in which, I think, they are mistaken: for why should not our neighbours be as good as we to derive from? And I must add, that had we been an unmix'd nation, I am of opinion it had been to our disadvantage: for to go no farther, we have three nations about us as clear from mixtures of blood as any in the world, and I know not which of them I could wish ourselves to be like; I mean the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish; and if I were to write a reverse to the Satire, I would examine all the nations of Europe, and prove, that those nations which are most mix'd, are the best, and have least of barbarism and brutality among them; and abundance of reasons might be given for it, too long to bring into a Preface. |