An Essay upon Projects
by Daniel Defoe
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About this eBook
- Author
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
- Title
- An Essay Upon Projects
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1887 Cassell & Company by David Price
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Economics -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 4087
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4087
- Release Date
- May 1, 2003
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.AN Essay upon Projects .
- 2.INTRODUCTION.
- 3.AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
- 4.AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION.
- 5.The History of Projects .
- 6.OF PROJECTORS.
- 7.OF BANKS. — Of the Multiplicity of Banks .
- 8.OF THE HIGHWAYS.
- 9.OF ASSURANCES.
- 10.OF FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. — Of Seamen . — I. — II.—FOR WIDOWS.
- 11.THE PROPOSAL IS FOR A PENSION OFFICE.
- 12.OF WAGERING.
- 13.OF FOOLS.
- 14.A CHARITY-LOTTERY.
- 15.OF BANKRUPTS. — A Court of Inquiries .
- 16.OF ACADEMIES. — Royal Academy for Military Exercises . — Academy for Women .
- 17.OF A COURT MERCHANT.
- 18.OF SEAMEN. — The Consequences of this Method .
- 19.THE CONCLUSION.
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