PART ONE BOOK I [17[2-1719J I HAVE entered on a performance ·which is without example~ whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I mean to present my fellow-mortals with a man in all the integrity of nature; and this man shall he myself. I alone. I knov my heart, and have studied Inanlcind; I am not made like anyone I have been acquainted with~ pcrhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the;! mould in which she formed me can only be determined after having read this work. Whenever the last trumpet shall sound, I will present myself before the Sovereign Judge with this book in my hand, and say aloud~ Thus have I acted; these were my thoughts; such was 1. vVith equal freedom and veracity have I related what was laudable or wicked; I have concealed no crimes, added no virtues; and if I have sometimes introduced superfluous ornament, it was merely to occupy a void occasioned by defect of mAbout the Publisher...

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