Robinson Crusoe / compiled by P.N. Furbank

THE PREFACE
  <1IF ever the story of any private Man's Adventures in>1
<1the World were worth making Publik, and were accept->1
<1able when Publish'd, the Editor of this Account thinks>1
<1this will be so.>1
  <1The Wonders of this Man's Life exceed all that>1
<1(he thinks)is to be found extant; the Life of one Man>1
<1being scarce capable of a greater Variety.>1
  <1The Story is told with Modesty, with Seriousness, and>1
<1with a religious Application of Events to the Uses to>1
<1which wise Men always apply them>1 (viz.) <1to the Instruc->1
<1tion of others by this Example, and tojustify and honour>1
<1the Wisdom of Providence in all the Variety of our>1
<1Circumstances, let them happen how they will.>1
  <1The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of>1
<1Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it:>1
<1And however thinks, because all such things are dispatch'd,>1
<1that the Improvement of it, as well to the Diversion, as>1
<1to the Instruction of . . .

Robinson Crusoe / compiled by P.N. Furbank

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