Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- The Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Poetry, Pamphleteering and the Pillory
- 2 Defoe and the Dead King
- 3 The Author of the Review
- 4 Propagandist for the Union
- 5 ‘Maintaining a Counter Correspondence’
- 6 1710: The Fateful Step
- 7 Defoe and the Whig Split
- 8 The Return of the Prodigal
- Appendices A Three Recently-Discovered Letters from Defoe to Godolphin (1708)
- Appendices B The ‘Sir Andrew Politick’ Letter (25 October 1718)
- Appendices C Defoe's An Appeal to Honour and Justice (1715)
- Notes
- Index
Appendices C - Defoe's An Appeal to Honour and Justice (1715)
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- The Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Poetry, Pamphleteering and the Pillory
- 2 Defoe and the Dead King
- 3 The Author of the Review
- 4 Propagandist for the Union
- 5 ‘Maintaining a Counter Correspondence’
- 6 1710: The Fateful Step
- 7 Defoe and the Whig Split
- 8 The Return of the Prodigal
- Appendices A Three Recently-Discovered Letters from Defoe to Godolphin (1708)
- Appendices B The ‘Sir Andrew Politick’ Letter (25 October 1718)
- Appendices C Defoe's An Appeal to Honour and Justice (1715)
- Notes
- Index
Summary
An Appeal to Honour and Justice, tho' it be of his Worst Enemies.
By Daniel De Foe. Being a True Account of his
Conduct in Publick Affairs.
Jerem. xviii. 18. Come and let us smite him with the Tongue,
and let us not give heed to any of his Words.
London: Printed for J. Baker, at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-Row. 1715.
An APPEAL to Honour and Justice, &c.
I Hope the Time is come at last, when the Voice of moderate Principles may be heard; hitherto the Noise has been so great, and the Prejudices and Passions of Men so strong, that it had been but in vain to offer at any Argument, or for any Man to talk of giving a Reason for his Actions: And this alone has been the Cause why, when other Men, who, I think, have less to say in their own Defence, are appealing to the Publick, and struggling to defend themselves, I alone have been silent under the infinite Clamours and Reproaches, causeless Curses, unusual Threatnings, and the most unjust and injurious Treatment in the World.
I hear much of Peoples calling out to punish the Guilty; but very few are concern'd to clear the Innocent.
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- A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe , pp. 199 - 234Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014