Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellow

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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. - William Hazlitt

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English essayist, 1778-1830

Born:10th April, 1778
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Starsign: Aries

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