The Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell: In One Volume. to Which Are Added, the Dumb Philosopher; and Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Title Page v
• The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell, - A Gentleman, Who, Tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes Down Any Stranger's Name at First Sight; with Their Future Contingencies of Fortune. vii
• Contents xxi
• The Introduction. 1
• Chap. I. - Mr. Campbell's Descent, Family, Birth, &c. 7
• Chap. Ii. After the Death of Mr. Duncan Campbell's Mother in Lapland, His Father, Archibald, Returned with His Son to Scotland. His Second Marriage, and How His Son Was Taught to Write and Read. 25
• Chap. Iii. the Method of Teaching Deaf and Dumb Persons to Write, Read, and Understand a Language. 30
• Chap. Iv. - Young Duncan Campbell Returns with His Mother to Edinburgh. the Earl of Argyle's Overthrow. the Ruin of Mr. Archibald Campbell and His Death. Young Duncan's Practice in Prediction at Edinburgh While Yet a Boy. 43
• Chap. V. - An Argument Proving the Perception Which Men Have, and Have Had, by All the Senses, as Seeing, Hearing, &c., of Demons, Genii, or Familiar Spirits. 61
• Chap. Vi. - A Narrative of Mr. Campbell's Coming to London and Taking Upon Him the Profession of a Pre­ Dictor Together with an Account of Many Strange Things That Came to Pass Just as He Foretold. 96
• Chap. Vii. - Concerning the Second-Sight. 134
• Chap. Viii. 158
• Appendix. 227
• A Remarkable Passage of an Apparition. 1665. 257
• The Dumb Philosopher, or Great Britains Wonder; i
• Preface. iii
• Part I. 5
• Part Ii. 20
• Part Iii. 31
• An Elegy, in Memory of Dickory Cronke, the Dumb Philosopher. 37
• Epitaph. 39
• 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. i
• The Preface. iii