The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himselfWith an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates . LONDON: Printed for W. Taylor at theShip in Pater-Nofter-Rovj. Mdccxix. THE PREFACE, IF ever the Story of any privateMans Adventures in theWorld were worth makingTublick, and were acceptablewhen Publijhd, the Editor of thisAcc
The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himselfWith an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates . LONDON: Printed for W. Taylor at theShip in Pater-Nofter-Rovj. Mdccxix. THE PREFACE, IF ever the Story of any privateMans Adventures in theWorld were worth makingTublick, and were acceptablewhen Publijhd, the Editor of thisAccount thinks this will be fo. The Wonders of this MansLife exceed all that (he thinks)is to be found extant; the Life ofone Man being fcarce capable ofa greater Variety. The Story is told with Modefiy,with Serioufnefs, and with areli-gious Application of Events to theUfes to which wife Men always apply The Preface. apply them (viz,) to the Inftruflionof others by this Example, and tojufiify and honour the Wifdom ofProvidence in aU the Variety ofour Circumflances, let them hap-pen how they will. The Editor believes the thingto be ajufi Hifiory of Faff ; nei-ther is their any Appearance ofFitlion in it \ And howeverthinks, becaufe aUfuch Things aredifputed, that the Improvement ofit, as well to the Diver/ion, asto the InJiruBion of the Reader,will be the fame; and a
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