DE FOR AS A PREFACE WRITER. 89
“The success the former parce as Se a ee
part of this work has met | THE FARTHER |
within the world, has yet
been no other than is ac- A D V E N IT U R E S

knowledged to be due to

the surprising variety of ROB INSO Nr CR US OF:

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the subject, and to the ; \ |
agreeable manner of the Being the Second and Laft Parc
performance. All the en- Or HIS

deavours of envious people

to reproach it with being L I fk k,

a romance, to search it for

errors in geography, in- And of tht Strance Sunsaszine
consistency in the rela- i : |
Oe ae Soe «| WAGE NINS Ohms: Dore ayo r us
tion, and contradictions in 1
the fact, have proved abor- Round dhree Parts ef the Globe.

tive, and as impudent as
malicious. The just ap-  «
plication of every incident,

ale j sef' Jo which is 2dded » Map of the World, in which is
the religious and useful Delineated the Voyages uf ROBINSON CRUSOE.

 

DE vitten by Himfelf.

 

inferences drawn from
every part, are so many
testimonies to the good
design of making it pub-
lic, and must legitimate
all the part that may
be called invention, or
parable, in the story. The LONDON: Printed fae W. Larcor ar the

Second Part, if the editor’s Sip in Farer-Nofler ees

 

 

 

 

opinion may pass, is (con-

trary to the usage of REDUCED FAC-SIMILE OF TITLE PAGE TO VOL. LL. OF THE
second parts) every way FIRST EDITION OF ‘‘ LOBINSON CRUBOE.”

as entertaining as the First, contains as strange and surprizing 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 everyway as profitable 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 are not only
the greatest beauties of the work, but are calculated for the infinite
advantage of the reader. By this they leave the work naked of ite
brightest ornaments; and if they would, at the same time, pretend that

* An abridgment had been published by a bookseller named Cox.—See Lee’s “‘ Life
of Daniel De Foe,” i. 298.