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['rest of title: The Whole comprizing the greatest Variety of extraordinary Incidents, and surprizing Revolutions, that ever happen’d in so short a Space of Time, even in that Fluctuating Empire\r\ntranslator: John Williams\r\n\r\nCf. mémoire Tineke de Vet-van Deurzen.\r\n\r\n\r\nconcerning paratext:\r\n{Name of woman on title page}\r\n{Other work by woman on title page}\r\n{Preface present}\r\n4 p. (n.p.)\r\nThe Translator\'s Preface.\r\nAfter the Appearance of Madam de Gomez\'s Name in the Title Page, there needs no Apology for for offering to the Publick, a Translation of a Piece wrote by one so celebrated throughout the polite World. [../..]\r\nIn short, this Piece may be called, A real History of Facts, set off with all the Ornaments of a Romance.\r\nBut as the Subject of the following Piece is not, perhaps, so universally known, as the Character of its Author, it may not be improper to give the Reader an idea of it, by way of Preface.\r\n[../..]\r\n[quoting Gomez:] "That every Opposition whatsoever to the Supream Power, always deserves, and generally meets with, the Vengeance of Heaven".\r\nOn reading this Passage, the Translator was at a Stop; - and had not Justice to the Original forbidden him, he would gladly have omitted it, since however excusable such a Reflecion might be, in Madam de Gomez, consider\'d as a Lesson to Frenchmen, to bear patiently a Yoke they can no ways shake off; it cannot but sound very harsh in the Ears of an Englishman, who, as such, must necessarily scorn a Nation so base and so servile. Thanks to indulgent Heaven! Our Constitution is, by the Revolution, fix\'d upon a basis so sure, that none but ourselves can overturn it, and by that, the Subject has as good a Right to his Liberties, as the Prince has to his Crown [...]\r\n{Diff. source-target culture}\r\nJohn Williams\r\nsvdjun10chawton']
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