Excerpt from The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe, Vol. 15: With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Literary Prefaces to the Various Pieces, Illustrative Notes, Etc After this, let who will reject him or his book, it is not possible to give him the least disturbance. After this, if any man will rob himself, or anyone else of the good this work might otherwise do, at his door be the sin. The present edition is more carefully corrected, and the errors of the press are so few, and of so small consequence, that an ordinary judgment will correct them in the reading. The author in revising it has made no additions, thinking his first design fully exhausted, and also esteeming it injurious to those who have bought the first, to let future editions vary so much from it as to make them think their money lost, and to oblige them to buy it over again. Some few things are omitted indeed, but not considerable, and those principally in the notes; from the mere sense the author had of the comments being less beautiful than the text; and that others are able to make better annotations than himself. The whole work being designed both to divert and instruct, the author has endeavoured to adapt it as much as possible to both those uses, from whence some have called it a religious play'. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.