THE LIFE AND SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. BY DANIEL DE FOE. FOUR ENGRAVINGS. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE, London: J. CHIDLEY, 151, GOSWELL STREET. 1834. THE PREFACE. IF ever the story of any private man's adventures in the world were worth making public, and were acceptable when published, the Editor of this account thinks this will be so. The wonders of this man's life exceed all that, he thinks, are to be found extant; the life of one man being scarce capable of greater variety. The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which wise men always apply them, viz. to the instruction of others by example, and to justify and honour the wisdom of Providence in all the variety of our circumstances, let them happen how they will. The Editor history of fact; of fiction in it. believes the thing to be a just neither is there any appearance However this may be, (for all such things are disputed,) he is of opinion that the improvement of it, as well to the diversion as to the instruction of the Reader, will be the same; and as such, he thinks, without farther compliment to the world, he does them a great service in the publication. |