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too bigoted in principle and too sophistical in reasoning to profit by these pearls of precious price , but will turn again and rend the hand which offers them . Hinc itla lachrymce ! Let Miss Martineau be assured that no testimony we could bear to the ability . of the writer , or the importance of the writings should be half as flattering to her feelings , or would be half as useful to her interests , * identified as these have been , and we feel confident ever will be , with the cause of truth , as the testimony which has been borne to her talents and principles by the unmanly and sophistical article in the Quarterly Review .
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Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice * y 323
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CH&PTJB * I . ' I'll break & ettstom . '
* Writb and publish it : you are not bound to tell the world it is a true story . Leave your readers to suppose the life and adventures " to be a work of imagination . The facts are too surprising , too uncommon to obtain belief : let the work appear , therefore , as mainly an invention , or a life of singular vicissitudes , &c . told with the
embellishments of fiction . ' Thus I was advised in the twenty-fifth year of my age . Sixteen years have since been added to my account , full of vicissitude and adventure , much more extraordinary than any through which I had previously passed . If sixteen years ago my story would have been regarded as a fiction , what opinions can I expect will be formed of it now , with such additions and multiplications of strangeness ? That it is a tissue of impudent falsehoods ; or , at best , a specimen of my faculty
of invention . * Facts are stranger than fiction . ' I was led into reflection on the course and incidents of my life , by the expressions of surprise which have followed the relation of some of the numerous adventures in which I have been engaged . At times a smile , not of incredulity exactly , but in kind acceptance of the matter as a clever invention , or a jest , has rewarded me for narrating and describing
those things , which were as true to the letter , as that I was then the speaker , and the smilers the hearers . I was not aware that there was any thing bo very unbelievable in the circumstances : nor , while they were passing , and I participating , or acting in them , did I consider they were particularly surprising , or outrageously eventful . I met many of them , most of the most extraordinary , as common occurrences ;
however strongly they might have grappled my individual feelings at the moment , I never expressly marked them with a note of admira-* In a note affixed to thia Quarterly article we find an advertisement , rather too
much ft la George Robins for owr taste , of certain ta / es already written by Miss Kdge-^ rorth , and presently to be published by Mr . John Murray . Had thw bibliopolieal / ae / beem made Itnown to us in time , we might p « rhaps have spared ourselves the trouble of reviewing this Quarterly article ; for though we have a wicked delight in exposing unmanly sophistries , we never wish to interfere with the labours of the General Advertiser .
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PEL . VERJUICE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/35/
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