Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

or,

PRIVATE ABUSES, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES:
Exemplified
In the Pride, Insolence, and exorbitant Wages of our Women, Servants, Footmen, &c.

by

Daniel Defoe

With

A Proposal for Amendment of the same; as also for clearing the Streets of those Vermin called Shoe–Cleaners, and substituting in their stead many Thousands of industrious Poor, now ready to starve. With divers other Hints of great Use to the Public.

Humbly submitted the Consideration of our Legislature, and the careful Perusal of all Masters and Mistresses of Families.

BY ANDREW MORETON, Esq.

The Fifth Edition, with the Addition of a Preface.

eBooks@Adelaide
2004


Table of Contents

THE PREFACE

EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS IS NOBODY’S BUSINESS


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