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['concerning paratext:\r\n[short] {Preface present}\r\nvii\r\nTo the Reader\r\nThe advantageous Mention made of this Piece in all the foreign reviews, induced me to look into it; and, to use the Style of my [sic] Superiors, the Censor of Books, "After a careful Perusal I have found nothing in it contrary to good Manners, or which should hinder a Translation of it". I am even so sanguine as to think, it bids as far to answer the worthy Bookseller\'s/\r\nviii\r\nPurpose as many other _Memoirs_ or _Adventures_. The several Incidents, and Miss De Launay\'s Behaviour, besides the Recommendation of Truth, being such, that the Polite and the Politician, the Lover and the Scholar, and even the Philosopher and the Christian, will meet with Entertainment in it.\r\n[n.s.] \r\n\r\np. 13\r\nMemoirs of Madame de Stahl\r\n[replaced first paragraph with another one - or at least as compared to the French version Londres 1755, copy Chawton]\r\nAs it is not in my power to increase the Revenues of Foundations for the health and Relief of the Body, or of the Retreats of Devotion; that I might not depart without some Token of my Regard for Society, I have drawn up these Memoirs, wishing that, according to the natural Tendency of them, they may promote the Tranquillity and moral Improvement of my Readers.\r\n[from here translation of text as in ed. Londres 1755]\r\nMy Fate has been the reverse of what is seen in Romances; where the Heroine, from a Cottage rises to a Throne. [...]\r\nsvdjun10chawton']
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