Secret memoirs of the late Mr. Duncan Campbel [sic], the famous deaf and dumb gentleman (1732)
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, supposed author, Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756, supposed author · London, : Printed for J. Millan and J. Chrichley · leaf 71
Affair terminated to my Advantage andHonour, a great many Gentlemen of the belt Fafl^iio^ [ 6o 1 Fafliion, as well as others, being prefent wlicn Ifulfilled the Requeft made to me. Many more of thefe Examples could I give,my Reader, but I chufe to confine myfelf to afew which have happened of late… … O T H I N G is more contrary to.Jj good Senfe, than imagining every^ thing we fee and hear is a Prognof-i tick either of Good or Evil, exceptit be the Belief that nothing is fo. I have knownPeople who have been put into fuch terrible Ap-prehenfions of Death by the fqueaking of a Wea-zel, as have…