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Title:  Essays upon several projects: or, effectual ways for advancing the interest of the nation.:
Author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
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bottom of the Thames; the Saltpeter-Maker shall Build Tom T—ds Pond into Houses; the Engineers Build Mo|dels and Windmills to draw Water, till Funds are rais'd to carry it on, by Men who have more Money than Brains, and then good night Patent and Invention; the Projector has done his business, and is gone.But the Honest Projector is he, who having by fair and plain principles of Sense, Honesty, and Ingenuity, brought any Contrivance to a suitable Perfe|ction, makes out what he pretends to, picks no body's pocket, puts his Pro|ject in Execution, and contents him|self with the real Produce, as the pro|fit of his Invention.0