Essay Upon
An Essay Upon Projects
作者：Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
体例：题 章数：50
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章节目录
共 50 题- CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY.
- INTRODUCTION.
- H. M.
- AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
- TO DALBY THOMAS, ESQ.,
- SIR,
- Your most obliged, humble servant
- D. F.
- AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION.
- THE HISTORY OF PROJECTS.
- OF PROJECTORS.
- OF BANKS.
- OF THE HIGHWAYS.
- 1. What I propose to do to the highways.
- 2. What the charge will be.
- 3. How to be raised.
- 4. What security for performance.
- 5. What profit to the undertaker.
- So in the whole county I reckon up—
- To the question, what I would do to them I answer—
- 4. As to _What security for performance_.
- OF ASSURANCES.
- OF FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.
- I.
- Any broken arm, or leg, or thigh, towards the cure £10
- To their wives if they are killed or drowned £50
- II.—FOR WIDOWS.
- 1. It may tempt some to forswear themselves.
- 2. People will order their wills so as to defraud the exception.
- THE PROPOSAL IS FOR A PENSION OFFICE.
- OF WAGERING.
- OF FOOLS.
- A CHARITY-LOTTERY.
- OF BANKRUPTS.
- Showeth
- OF ACADEMIES.
- I propose this to consist of four parts:
- This college should have the following preferments, with salaries
- 3. To submit to the orders of the house.
- 2. Handling all sorts of firearms.
- 3. Marching and counter-marching in form.
- 4. Fencing and the long-staff.
- 5. Riding and managing, or horsemanship.
- 6. Running, leaping, and wrestling.
- Under this head of academies I might bring in a project for an
- OF A COURT MERCHANT.
- OF SEAMEN.
- 2. 40s. per ton freight upon all goods imported.
- 3. 4 per cent. on the value of all goods exported or imported.
- THE CONCLUSION.