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Feb 25: THE SHORTEST WAY WITH DISSENTERS

Punished for Too Sharp a Wit

The brilliant wit and cutting satire of Defoe made for him
friends and enemies—but mostly enemies. So piercing and twoedged
was "The Shortest-Way with Dissenters" that he was
fined, imprisoned and pilloried.

Read: THE SHORTEST-WAY WITH DISSENTERS .....  Vol. 27, pp. 133-147