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THE PREFACE.
_THE Success the for|mer Part of this Work has met with in the World, has yet been no other than is ac|knowledg'd to be due to the sur|prising Variety of the Subject, and to the agreeable Manner of the Performance.
The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe: being the second and last part of his life, and of the strange surprizing accounts of his travels round three parts of the globe. Written by himself. To which is added a map ...
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- The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe: being the second and last part of his life, and of the strange surprizing accounts of his travels round three parts of the globe. Written by himself. To which is added a map ...
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- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
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- London :: printed for W. Taylor,
- 1719.
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All the Endeavours of en|vious People to reproach it with being a Romance, to search it for Errors in Geography, Incon|sistency in the Relation, and Con|tradictions in the Fact, have pro|ved abortive, and as impotent as malicious.
The just Application of every Incident, the religious and useful Inferences drawn from every Part, are so many Testimonies to the good Design of making it publick, and must legitimate all the Part that may be call'd Inventi|on, or Parable in the Story.
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The Second Part, if the E|ditor's Opinion may pass, is (con|trary to the Usage of Second Parts,) every Way as entertain|ing as the First, contains as strange and surprising Incidents, and as great a Variety of them; nor is the Application less serious, or suitable; and doubtless will, to the sober, as well as ingenious Reader, be every way as profi|table and diverting; and this makes the abridging this Work, as scandalous, as it is knavish and ridiculous, seeing, while to shorten the Book, that they may seem to reduce the Value, they strip it of all those Reflections, as well religious as moral, which
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are not only the greatest Beautys of the Work, but are calculated for the infinite Advantage of the Reader.
By this they leave the Work naked of its brightest Ornaments; and if they would, at the same Time pretend, that the Author has supply'd the Story out of his Invention, they take from it the Improvement, which alone re|commends that Invention to wise and good Men.
The Injury these Men do the Proprietor of this Work, is a Practice all honest Men abhor; and he believes he may challenge them to shew the Difference be|tween
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that and Robbing on the Highway, or Breaking open a House.
If they can't shew any Dif|ference in the Crime, they will find it hard to shew why there should be any Difference in the Punish|ment: And he will answer for it, that nothing shall be wanting on his Part, to do them Justice.