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<Text id=DefRCru> <Author>Defoe, Daniel</Author> <Title>The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner</Title> <Edition>London: Oxford University Press, 1972</Edition> <Date>1719</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>DefRCruPre</locdoc><milestone n=Preface> <div0> THE PREFACE <p><i>IF ever the story of any private Man's Adventures in the World were worth making Publik, and were accept- able when Publish'd, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so.</i> <p><i>The Wonders of this Man's Life exceed all that (he thinks)is to be found extant; the Life of one Man being scarce capable of a greater Variety.</i> <p><i>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</i> (viz.) <i>to the Instruc- tion of others by this Example, and tojustify and honour the Wisdom of Providence in all the Variety of our Circumstances, let them happen how they will.</i> < . . .
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