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First he turned to me, and pointing to them, said, These, Sir,
are some of the gentlemen who owe their lives to you.

Publish'd July 1.1790 by I. Stockdale, Piccadilly

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Round three parts of the Globe .

Written by Himself.

VOL. 11.

LON

D 0.

Printed for John Stockdale : Feccadilly

1790

MN.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

758727 A

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R 1935 L

THE

PREFACE.

T

HE fuccefs the former part of this WORK

has met with in the world, has yet been no other than is acknowledged to be due to the furprising variety of the fubject, and to the agreeable manner of the performance.

All the endeavours of envious people to reproach it with being a romance, to fearch it for errors in geography, inconsistency in the relation, and contradictions in the fact, have proved abortive, and as impotent as malicious.

The just application of every incident, the religious and useful inferences drawn from every part, are fo many teftimonies to the good defign of making it public, and must legitimate all the part that may be called invention or parable in the ftory. A

VOL. II.

The

KRAUS 24DEC 34

The Second Part, if the Editor's opinion
may pass, is (contrary to the usage of Second
Parts) every way as entertaining as the First;
contains as strange and surprising incidents,
and as great a variety of them; nor is the
application lefs ferious or fuitable; and doubt-
lefs will, to the fober, as well as the ingenious
READER, be every way as profitable and di-
verting; and this makes the abridging this
WORK as fcandalous, as it is knavish and ridi-
culous. Seeing, to fhorten the Book, that they
may feem to reduce the value, they ftrip it of
all those reflections, as well religious as moral,
which are not only the greateft beauties of the
WORK, but are calculated for the infinite ad-
vantage of the READER.

By this, they leave the WORK naked of its
brightest ornaments; and yet they would (at
the fame time they pretend that the Author
has fupplied his ftory out of his invention)
take from it the improvement, which alone
recommends that invention to wife and good

men.

The injury these men do to the PROPRI-
ETORS of WORKS, is a practice all honest

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