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Chapter 208: In which the history is concluded.
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Volume 1
1
The introduction to the work, or bill of fare to the feast.
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A short description of squire Allworthy, and a fuller account of Miss Bridget Allworthy, his sister.
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An odd accident which befel Mr Allworthy at his return home. The decent behaviour of Mrs Deborah Wilkins, with some proper animadversions on bastards.
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Containing a few common matters, with a very uncommon observation upon them.
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Containing a few common matters, with a very uncommon observation upon them.
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Mrs Deborah is introduced into the parish with a simile. A short account of Jenny Jones, with the difficulties and discouragements which may attend young women in the pursuit of learning.
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Containing such grave matter, that the reader cannot laugh once through the whole chapter, unless peradventure he should laugh at the author.
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A dialogue between Mesdames Bridget and Deborah; containing more amusement, but less instruction, than the former.
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Containing matters which will surprize the reader.
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The hospitality of Allworthy; with a short sketch of the characters of two brothers, a doctor and a captain, who were entertained by that gentleman.
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Containing many rules, and some examples, concerning falling in love: descriptions of beauty, and other more prudential inducements to matrimony.
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Containing what the reader may, perhaps, expect to find in it.
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Which concludes the first book; with an instance of ingratitude, which, we hope, will appear unnatural.
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Showing what kind of a history this is; what it is like, and what it is not like.
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Religious cautions against showing too much favour to bastards; and a great discovery made by Mrs Deborah Wilkins.
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The description of a domestic government founded upon rules directly contrary to those of Aristotle.
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Containing one of the most bloody battles, or rather duels, that were ever recorded in domestic history.
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Containing much matter to exercise the judgment and reflection of the reader.
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The trial of Partridge, the schoolmaster, for incontinency; the evidence of his wife; a short reflection on the wisdom of our law; with other grave matters, which those will like best who understand t
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A short sketch of that felicity which prudent couples may extract from hatred: with a short apology for those people who overlook imperfections in their friends.
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A receipt to regain the lost affections of a wife, which hath never been known to fail in the most desperate cases.
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A proof of the infallibility of the foregoing receipt, in the lamentations of the widow; with other suitable decorations of death, such as physicians, &c., and an epitaph in the true stile.
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Containing little or nothing.
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The heroe of this great history appears with very bad omens. A little tale of so LOW a kind that some may think it not worth their notice. A word or two concerning a squire, and more relating to a gam
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The character of Mr Square the philosopher, and of Mr Thwackum the divine; with a dispute concerning----
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Containing a necessary apology for the author; and a childish incident, which perhaps requires an apology likewise.
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The opinions of the divine and the philosopher concerning the two boys; with some reasons for their opinions, and other matters.
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Containing a better reason still for the before-mentioned opinions.
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In which the author himself makes his appearance on the stage.
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A childish incident, in which, however, is seen a good-natured disposition in Tom Jones.
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Containing an incident of a more heinous kind, with the comments of Thwackum and Square.
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In which Master Blifil and Jones appear in different lights.
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Containing five pages of paper.
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A short hint of what we can do in the sublime, and a description of Miss Sophia Western.
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Wherein the history goes back to commemorate a trifling incident that happened some years since; but which, trifling as it was, had some future consequences.
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Containing such very deep and grave matters, that some readers, perhaps, may not relish it.
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Containing matter accommodated to every taste.
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An apology for the insensibility of Mr Jones to all the charms of the lovely Sophia; in which possibly we may, in a considerable degree, lower his character in the estimation of those men of wit and g
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Being the shortest chapter in this book.
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A battle sung by the muse in the Homerican style, and which none but the classical reader can taste.
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Containing matter of no very peaceable colour.
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A story told by Mr Supple, the curate. The penetration of Squire Western. His great love for his daughter, and the return to it made by her.
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The narrow escape of Molly Seagrim, with some observations for which we have been forced to dive pretty deep into nature.
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Containing much clearer matters; but which flowed from the same fountain with those in the preceding chapter.
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A dreadful accident which befel Sophia. The gallant behaviour of Jones, and the more dreadful consequence of that behaviour to the young lady; with a short digression in favour of the female sex.
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The arrival of a surgeon.--His operations, and a long dialogue between Sophia and her maid.
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Of the SERIOUS in writing, and for what purpose it is introduced.
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In which Mr Jones receives many friendly visits during his confinement; with some fine touches of the passion of love, scarce visible to the naked eye.
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Which all who have no heart will think to contain much ado about nothing.
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A little chapter, in which is contained a little incident.
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A very long chapter, containing a very great incident.
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By comparing which with the former, the reader may possibly correct some abuse which he hath formerly been guilty of in the application of the word love.
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In which Mr Allworthy appears on a sick-bed.
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Containing matter rather natural than pleasing.
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55
Which, among other things, may serve as a comment on that saying of Aeschines, that "drunkenness shows the mind of a man, as a mirrour reflects his person."
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Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency.
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In which a simile in Mr Pope's period of a mile introduces as bloody a battle as can possibly be fought without the assistance of steel or cold iron.
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In which is seen a more moving spectacle than all the blood in the bodies of Thwackum and Blifil, and of twenty other such, is capable of producing.
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Of love.
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The character of Mrs Western. Her great learning and knowledge of the world, and an instance of the deep penetration which she derived from those advantages.
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Containing two defiances to the critics.
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Containing sundry curious matters.
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In which is related what passed between Sophia and her aunt.
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Containing a dialogue between Sophia and Mrs Honour, which may a little relieve those tender affections which the foregoing scene may have raised in the mind of a good-natured reader.
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A picture of formal courtship in miniature, as it always ought to be drawn, and a scene of a tenderer kind painted at full length.
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The meeting between Jones and Sophia.
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Being of a much more tempestuous kind than the former.
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In which Mr Western visits Mr Allworthy.
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A short chapter; but which contains sufficient matter to affect the good-natured reader.
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Containing love-letters, &c.
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The behaviour of Sophia on the present occasion; which none of her sex will blame, who are capable of behaving in the same manner. And the discussion of a knotty point in the court of conscience.
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A short chapter, containing a short dialogue between Squire Western and his sister.
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A comparison between the world and the stage.
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Containing a conversation which Mr Jones had with himself.
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Containing several dialogues.
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A picture of a country gentlewoman taken from the life.
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The generous behaviour of Sophia towards her aunt.
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Containing great variety of matter.
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A strange resolution of Sophia, and a more strange stratagem of Mrs Honour.
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Containing scenes of altercation, of no very uncommon kind.
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The wise demeanour of Mr Western in the character of a magistrate. A hint to justices of peace, concerning the necessary qualifications of a clerk; with extraordinary instances of paternal madness and
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Containing several matters, natural enough perhaps, but low.
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The adventure of a company of soldiers.
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The adventure of a company of officers.
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Containing the great address of the landlady, the great learning of a surgeon, and the solid skill in casuistry of the worthy lieutenant.
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A most dreadful chapter indeed; and which few readers ought to venture upon in an evening, especially when alone.
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The conclusion of the foregoing adventure.
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A wonderful long chapter concerning the marvellous; being much the longest of all our introductory chapters.
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89
In which the landlady pays a visit to Mr Jones.
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In which the surgeon makes his second appearance.
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91
In which is introduced one of the pleasantest barbers that was ever recorded in history, the barber of Bagdad, or he in Don Quixote, not excepted.
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A dialogue between Mr Jones and the barber.
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In which more of the talents of Mr Benjamin will appear, as well as who this extraordinary person was.
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94
Containing better reasons than any which have yet appeared for the conduct of Partridge; an apology for the weakness of Jones; and some further anecdotes concerning my landlady.
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Jones arrives at Gloucester, and goes to the Bell; the character of that house, and of a petty-fogger which he there meets with.
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96
Containing several dialogues between Jones and Partridge, concerning love, cold, hunger, and other matters; with the lucky and narrow escape of Partridge, as he was on the very brink of making a fatal
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97
In which our travellers meet with a very extraordinary adventure.
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98
In which the Man of the Hill begins to relate his history.
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In which the Man of the Hill continues his history.
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In which the foregoing story is farther continued.
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101
In which the Man of the Hill concludes his history.
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102
A brief history of Europe; and a curious discourse between Mr Jones and the Man of the Hill.
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Of those who lawfully may, and of those who may not, write such histories as this.
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Containing a very surprizing adventure indeed, which Mr Jones met with in his walk with the Man of the Hill.
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105
The arrival of Mr Jones with his lady at the inn; with a very full description of the battle of Upton.
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In which the arrival of a man of war puts a final end to hostilities, and causes the conclusion of a firm and lasting peace between all parties.
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107
An apology for all heroes who have good stomachs, with a description of a battle of the amorous kind.
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108
A friendly conversation in the kitchen, which had a very common, though not very friendly, conclusion.
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109
Containing a fuller account of Mrs Waters, and by what means she came into that distressful situation from which she was rescued by Jones.
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110
Containing instructions very necessary to be perused by modern critics.
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111
Containing the arrival of an Irish gentleman, with very extraordinary adventures which ensued at the inn.
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112
A dialogue between the landlady and Susan the chamber-maid, proper to be read by all inn-keepers and their servants; with the arrival, and affable behaviour of a beautiful young lady; which may teach
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113
Containing infallible nostrums for procuring universal disesteem and hatred.
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Showing who the amiable lady, and her unamiable maid, were.
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Containing, among other things, the ingenuity of Partridge, the madness of Jones, and the folly of Fitzpatrick.
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116
In which are concluded the adventures that happened at the inn at Upton.
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In which the history goes backward.
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The escape of Sophia.
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A crust for the critics.
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The adventures which Sophia met with after her leaving Upton.
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A very short chapter, in which however is a sun, a moon, a star, and an angel.
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122
The history of Mrs Fitzpatrick.
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In which the history of Mrs Fitzpatrick is continued.
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In which the mistake of the landlord throws Sophia into a dreadful consternation.
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In which Mrs Fitzpatrick concludes her history.
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A dreadful alarm in the inn, with the arrival of an unexpected friend of Mrs Fitzpatrick.
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The morning introduced in some pretty writing. A stagecoach. The civility of chambermaids. The heroic temper of Sophia. Her generosity. The return to it. The departure of the company, and their arriva
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Containing a hint or two concerning virtue, and a few more concerning suspicion.
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Showing what is to be deemed plagiarism in a modern author, and what is to be considered as lawful prize.
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In which, though the squire doth not find his daughter, something is found which puts an end to his pursuit.
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The departure of Jones from Upton, with what passed between him and Partridge on the road.
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The adventure of a beggar-man.
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Containing more adventures which Mr Jones and his companion met on the road.
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From which it may be inferred that the best things are liable to be misunderstood and misinterpreted.
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Containing a remark or two of our own and many more of the good company assembled in the kitchen.
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In which fortune seems to have been in a better humour with Jones than we have hitherto seen her.
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Containing little more than a few odd observations.
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In which Mr Jones and Mr Dowling drink a bottle together.
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The disasters which befel Jones on his departure for Coventry; with the sage remarks of Partridge.
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Relates that Mr Jones continued his journey, contrary to the advice of Partridge, with what happened on that occasion.
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A dialogue between Jones and Partridge.
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What happened to Mr Jones in his journey from St Albans.
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An Invocation.
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What befel Mr Jones on his arrival in London.
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A project of Mrs Fitzpatrick, and her visit to Lady Bellaston.
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Which consists of visiting.
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An adventure which happened to Mr Jones at his lodgings, with some account of a young gentleman who lodged there, and of the mistress of the house, and her two daughters.
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What arrived while the company were at breakfast, with some hints concerning the government of daughters.
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Containing the whole humours of a masquerade.
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Containing a scene of distress, which will appear very extraordinary to most of our readers.
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Which treats of matters of a very different kind from those in the preceding chapter.
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A chapter which, though short, may draw tears from some eyes.
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In which the reader will be surprized.
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In which the thirteenth book is concluded.
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An essay to prove that an author will write the better for having some knowledge of the subject on which he writes.
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Containing letters and other matters which attend amours.
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Containing various matters.
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Which we hope will be very attentively perused by young people of both sexes.
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A short account of the history of Mrs Miller.
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Containing a scene which we doubt not will affect all our readers.
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The interview between Mr Jones and Mr Nightingale.
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What passed between Jones and old Mr Nightingale; with the arrival of a person not yet mentioned in this history.
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Containing strange matters.
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A short chapter, which concludes the book.
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Too short to need a preface.
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In which is opened a very black design against Sophia.
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A further explanation of the foregoing design.
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By which it will appear how dangerous an advocate a lady is when she applies her eloquence to an ill purpose.
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Containing some matters which may affect, and others which may surprize, the reader.
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By what means the squire came to discover his daughter.
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In which various misfortunes befel poor Jones.
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Short and sweet.
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Containing love-letters of several sorts.
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Consisting partly of facts, and partly of observations upon them.
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Containing curious, but not unprecedented matter.
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A discovery made by Partridge.
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Of prologues.
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A whimsical adventure which befel the squire, with the distressed situation of Sophia.
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What happened to Sophia during her confinement.
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In which Sophia is delivered from her confinement.
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In which Jones receives a letter from Sophia, and goes to a play with Mrs Miller and Partridge.
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In which the history is obliged to look back.
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In which Mr Western pays a visit to his sister, in company with Mr Blifil.
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Schemes of Lady Bellaston for the ruin of Jones.
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In which Jones pays a visit to Mrs Fitzpatrick.
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The consequence of the preceding visit.
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Containing a portion of introductory writing.
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The generous and grateful behaviour of Mrs Miller.
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The arrival of Mr Western, with some matters concerning the paternal authority.
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An extraordinary scene between Sophia and her aunt.
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Mrs Miller and Mr Nightingale visit Jones in the prison.
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In which Mrs Miller pays a visit to Sophia.
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A pathetic scene between Mr Allworthy and Mrs Miller.
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Containing various matters.
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What happened to Mr Jones in the prison.
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A farewel to the reader.
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Containing a very tragical incident.
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Allworthy visits old Nightingale; with a strange discovery that he made on that occasion.
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Containing two letters in very different stiles.
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In which the history is continued.
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In which the history is farther continued
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Continuation of the history.
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Further continuation.
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A further continuation.
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Wherein the history begins to draw towards a conclusion.
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The history draws nearer to a conclusion.
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Approaching still nearer to the end.
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In which the history is concluded.
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