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...Excerpt: Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife adore...

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...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exce...

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...entures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1... ...HE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. . . . . . . 2 THE JOURNAL. ... ...Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, ... ...ose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called RobinsonKreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of W... ... his Consent than force me to go without it; that I was now Eighteen Years old, which was too late to go Apprentice to a Trade, or Clerk to an Attorne... ...ing Weather ’tis now. To make short this sad part of my Story, we went the old way of all Sailors, the Punch was made, and I was made drunk with it, a... ...ould give the Boy an Obligation to set him free in ten Years, if he turn’d Christian; upon this, and Xury saying he was willing to go to him, I let th... ...V oyage to the Brasils, and arriv’d in the Bay de Todos los Santos, or All Saints Bay, in about Twenty two Days after. And now I was once more deliver... ...ense that I had before condemn’d them, in my Thoughts; any more than those Christians were Murtherers, who often put to Death the Prisoners taken in B...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, a...

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