Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe : with his Vision of the angelick world . S the Dcfign of every Thingis faid to be firft in tbc4i>and laft in the m tention, Execution; fo I come no wto acknowledge to my Reader, Thatthe prefent Work is not merely theProdiid: of the two firft Volumes^but the two firft Volumes may ratherbe called the Produdl of this: TheFable is always made for the Moral,not the Moral for the Fable- ^ I have heard, that the envious andili-difpofed Part of the World haveraisd iome Objections againft thetwo firft Volumes, on Prete

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Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe : with his Vision of the angelick world . S the Dcfign of every Thingis faid to be firft in tbc4i>and laft in the m tention, Execution; fo I come no wto acknowledge to my Reader, Thatthe prefent Work is not merely theProdiid: of the two firft Volumes^but the two firft Volumes may ratherbe called the Produdl of this: TheFable is always made for the Moral,not the Moral for the Fable- ^ I have heard, that the envious andili-difpofed Part of the World haveraisd iome Objections againft thetwo firft Volumes, on Pretence, forwant of a better Reajon ; That (asthej jay) the Stoiy is feign d, thatfhe Names are honoviQ^ and that A z it Robinson Crusoe/ it is alia Romance ; that there neverwere any fuch Man ox Place, or Cir- cumftances in any Mans Life; that J ^ ^ it is all formd and embcllifhd byInvention to impofe upon the World. I RohiujOn Cmfoe being at thisTime in perfedl and found Mind andMemory, Thanks be to God there-fore ; do hereby declare, their Obje^diion is an Invention fcandalous inDefign, and falfe in Fad ; and doaffirm

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