The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe, Volume 4Bell & Daldy, 1854 |
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... story in worse clothes than the lady whose words he speaks , prepared for the world . He takes the liberty to say , that this story differs from most of the modern performances of this kind , though some of them have met with a very ...
... story in worse clothes than the lady whose words he speaks , prepared for the world . He takes the liberty to say , that this story differs from most of the modern performances of this kind , though some of them have met with a very ...
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... story to be truth . This may , he hopes , be a pledge for the credit of the rest , though the latter part of her history lay abroad , and could not be so well vouched as the first ; yet , as she has told it herself , we have the less ...
... story to be truth . This may , he hopes , be a pledge for the credit of the rest , though the latter part of her history lay abroad , and could not be so well vouched as the first ; yet , as she has told it herself , we have the less ...
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... so much improvement , that we make no question the story , however meanly told , will find a passage to his best hours , and be read both with profit and delight . THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS ; OR , A HISTORY OF THE viii THE PREFACE .
... so much improvement , that we make no question the story , however meanly told , will find a passage to his best hours , and be read both with profit and delight . THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS ; OR , A HISTORY OF THE viii THE PREFACE .
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... story , which ought not to be long , he began to find his trade sunk , his stock declined , and that , in short , he could not carry on his business , and once or twice his brewing utensils were extented for the excise ; and , the last ...
... story , which ought not to be long , he began to find his trade sunk , his stock declined , and that , in short , he could not carry on his business , and once or twice his brewing utensils were extented for the excise ; and , the last ...
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... story , in came the gentlewoman's husband , and though her heart was hardened against all pity , who was really and nearly related to the children , for they were the children of her own brother , yet the good man was quite softened ...
... story , in came the gentlewoman's husband , and though her heart was hardened against all pity , who was really and nearly related to the children , for they were the children of her own brother , yet the good man was quite softened ...
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