The
dumb philosopher,
or,
great Britain’s Wonder;
containing:
I. A faithful and very surprising
Account how Dickory Cronke, a Tinner’s son,
in the County of Cornwall, was born Dumb, and continued
so for Fifty-eight years; and how, some days before
he died, he came to his Speech; with Memoirs of his
Life, and the Manner of his Death.
II. A Declaration of his Faith
and Principles in Religion; with a Collection of Select
Meditations, composed in his Retirement.
III. His Prophetical Observations
upon the Affairs of Europe, more particularly of Great
Britain, from 1720 to 1729. The whole extracted
from his Original Papers, and confirmed by unquestionable
Authority.
To which is ANNEXED his elegy,
written by A young CORNISH gentleman,
of
Exeter College in OXFORD.
WITH
An epitaph by another hand.
“Non quis, sed quid.”
London:
Printed for and Sold by THOMAS BICKERTON, at
the Crown, in Paternoster Row. 1719.
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