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SHEWING the wholesome ufes drawn from recording the atchievements of those wonderful productions of
nature called GREAT MEN
CHA P. II.
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Giving an account of as many of our hero's ancestors as
can be gathered out of the rubbish of antiquity, which
hath been carefully fifted for that purpose
CHA P. III.
The birth, parentage, and education, of Mr. Jonathan
Wild the Great
CHA P. IV..
Mr. Wild's first entrance into the world.. His acquaint-
ance with Count La Rufe
CHAP. V..
A dialogue between young Mr. Wild and Count La Rufe,.
which, having extended to the rejoinder, had a very
quiet, eafy, and natural conclufion
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CHAP
Further conferences between the Count and mafter Wild,
with other matters of the GREAT kind
CHAP. VII.
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Mr. Wild fets out on his travels, and returns home again.
A very short chapter, containing infinitely more time
and less matter than any other in the whole ftory 22
CHA P. VIII.
An adventure where Wild, in the divifion of the booty,
exhibits an aftonishing inftance of GREATNESS
CHA P. IX.
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Wild pays a vifit to Mifs Lætitia Snap. A defcrip-
tion of that lovely young creature, and the fuccefslefs
iffue of Mr. Wild's addresses
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A difcovery of fome matters concerning the chafte Lætitia,
which must wonderfully surprise, and perhaps affect
our reader
CHA P. XI.
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Containing as notable inftances of human greatness as are
to be met with in antient or modern hiftory. Concluding
with fome wholefome hints to the gay part of man-
kind
CHA P. XII.
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Further particulars relating to Mifs Tifhy, which perhaps
may not greatly furprife after the former. The defcrip-
tion of a very fine gentleman. And a dialogue between
Wild and the Count, in which public virtue is just
binted at, with, &c.
CHA P. XIII.
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A chapter, of which we are extremely vain, and which
indeed we look on as our Chef d'Oeuvre, containing
a wonderful flory concerning the devil, and as nice a
fcene of honour as ever happened
CHA P. XIV.
In which the history of GREATNESS is continued
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CHAP. I.
II.
CHARACTERS of filly people, with the proper ufes
for which fuch are defigned
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Great examples of GREATNESS in Wild, hewn as well
by his behaviour to Baghot, as in a fcheme laid firft
to impofe on Heartfree by means of the Count, and then
to cheat the Count of the booty
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Containing Scenes of foftness, love, and honour, all in the
great ftile
CHAP. IV.
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In which Wild, after many fruitless endeavours to dif
cover his friend, moralizes on his misfortunes in a
Speech, which may be of ufe (if rightly underflood) to
fome other confiderable Speech-makers
CHA P. V.
62
Containing many surprising adventures, which our Hero
with GREAT GREATNESS atchieved
Of Hats
CHAP. VI.
CHA P. VII.
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Shewing the confequence which attended Heartfree's ad-
ventures with Wild; all natural, and common enough
to little wretches who deal with Great Men; together
with fome precedents of letters, being the different me-
thods of anfwering a dun
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In which our hero carries GREATNESS to an immoderate
beight.
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More GREATNESS in Wild. A low fcene between Mrs.
Heartfree and her children, and a fcheme of our hero,
worthy the highest admiration, and even aftonishment 79
СНАР.
CHAP. X.
Sea-adventures very new and furprising
82
The great and wonderful behaviour of our hero in the
boat
CHAP XII.
The Strange and yet natural efcape of our hero
CHAP. XIII.
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The conclufion of the boat adventure, and the end of the
Second book
89
BOOK III.
THE low and pitiful behaviour of Heartfree; and
the foolish conduct of his apprentice
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A foliloquy of Heartfree's, full of low and bafe ideas,
without a fyllable of GREATNESS
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Wherein our Hero proceeds in the road to GREATNESS 99
CHA P. IV.
In which a young hero, of wonderful good promise, makes
his first appearance, with many other GREAT MAT-
TERS
102.
More and more. GREATNESS, unparalleled in history or
romance
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The event of Fireblood's adventure, and a treaty of
marriage, which might have been concluded either at
Smithfield or St. James's
CHA P.
VII.
108,
Matters preliminary to the marriage between Mr. Jona-
than Wild, and the chafte Lætitia
112.
CHAP.
CHAP. VIII.
Adialogue matrimonial, which paffed between JONATHAN
WILD Efquire, and LETITIA his wife, on the morn-
ing of the day fortnight on which his nuptials were ce-
lebrated; which concluded more amicably than thofe
debates generally-do
114
Obfervations on the foregoing dialogue, together with a
bafe defign on our hero, which must be detefted by every
lover of GREATNESS
CHA P. X.
118
Mr. Wild with unprecedented generosity wifits his friend
Heartfree, and the ungrateful reception he met with 121
A fcheme fo deeply laid, that it frames all the politics
of this our age; with digreffion and fub-digreffion 125
New inftances of Friendly's folly, &c.
127
Something concerning Fireblood, which will furprise;
and fomewhat touching one of the Mifs Snaps, which
will greatly concern the reader
CHAP. XIV.
130
In which our hero makes a speech well worthy to be cele-
brated; and the behaviour of one of the gang, perhaps
- more unnatural than any other part of this history
IV.
132
A Sentiment of the ordinary's, worthy to be written in
letters of gold; a very extraordinary inftance of folly
in Friendly; and a dreadful accident which befel our
bero
138
A short hint concerning popular ingratitude. Mr. Wild's
arrival in the caftle, with other occurrences to be found
in no other hiftory
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