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THE LIFE

OF

MR. JONATHAN WILD,

THE

GREAT.

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I. Shewing the wholesome uses drawn from
recording the achievements of those won-
derful productions of nature called great

MEN

II. 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 sifted for that purpose

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III. The birth, parentage, and education of Mr.
Jonathan Wild the Great

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IV. Master Wild's first entrance into the world.
His acquaintance with Count La Ruse
V. A dialogue between young Master Wild
and Count La Ruse, which, having ex-
tended to the rejoinder, had a very quiet,
easy, and natural conclusion

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VI. Further conferences between the Count and Master Wild, with other matters of the GREAT kind VII. Master Wild sets out on his travels, and returns home again. A A very short chapter, containing infinitely more time and less matter than any other in the whole story. 127 VIII. An adventure, where Wild, in the division of the booty, exhibits an astonishing instance of GREATNESS

VOL. IV.

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IX. Wild pays a visit to Miss Lætitia Snap. A description of that lovely young creature, and the successless issue of Mr. Wild's

addresses

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X. A discovery of some matters concerning the
chaste Lætitia, which must wonderfully
surprise, and perhaps affect our reader
XI. Containing as notable instances of human
greatness as are to be met with in ancient
or modern history. Concluding with some
wholesome hints to the gay part of man-
kind

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XII. Further particulars relating to Miss Tishy, which perhaps may not greatly surprise after the former. The description of a very fine gentleman. And a dialogue between Wild and the Count, in which public virtue is just hinted at, with, &c. 142 XIII. A chapter, of which we are extremely vain; and which indeed we look on as our chef d'œuvre, containing a wonderful story concerning the devil, and as nice a scene of honour as ever happened

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XIV. In which the history of GREATNESS is con

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I. Characters of silly people, with the proper
uses for which such are designed

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II. Great examples of GREATNESS in Wild, shewn as well by his behaviour to Bagshot, as in a scheme laid first to impose on Heartfree by means of the Count, and then to cheat the Count of the booty

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III. Containing scenes of softness, love, and

honour, all in the GREAT style.

IV. In which Wild, after many fruitless endeavours to discover his friend, moralizes on his misfortune in a speech, which may be of use (if rightly understood) to some other considerable speech-makers

V. Containing many surprising adventures,
which our Hero, with GREAT GREATNESS,
achieved

VI. Of Hats
VII. Shewing the consequence which attended

Heartfree's adventures with Wild; all
natural, and common enough to little
wretches who deal with great Men; to-
gether with some precedents of letters,
being the different methods of answering
a Dun

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VIII. In which our hero carries GREATNESS to an

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IX. More GREATNESS in Wild. A low scene be-
tween Mrs. Heartfree and her children, and
a scheme of our hero worthy the highest
admiration, and even astonishment

X. Sea adventures very new and surprising
XI. The great and wonderful behaviour of our

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XII. The strange and yet natural escape of our

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XIII. The conclusion of the boat adventure, and the end of the second book

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