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Born June 21, 1750 • Newcastle upon Tyne • England
Died September 8, 1814 (aged 64) • London • England
Notable Works “The Restorer of Society to its Natural State”
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Virginia Woolf
British writer
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
John Toland
Irish-born British author
John Perceval, 2nd earl of Egmont
British politician
Sir Philip Francis, detail of an oil painting by J. Lonsdale; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Philip Francis
British politician
Angelina Grimké
American abolitionist
Sarah Grimké
American abolitionist
Poet John Milton
John Milton
English poet
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
United States statesman
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
English poet
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.
Daniel Defoe
English author
William Penn
William Penn
English Quaker leader and colonist
English-American writer Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
British-American author
Lucian
Greek writer
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier
American author
Thomas Nashe
English writer