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THE HORRID MYSTERIES.
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dreadful archives before I was born; they are all directed, in a pre-concerted manner, towards the most horrid crime, to the perpetration of which they wanted to feduce me; and their whole: train proves the incontestible truth, that not the application of individual capacities, but only a prudent improvement of reason, can insure an uncontrolled sway over the minds of men.

I must, however, observe, that the course of my history is too rapid, and too complicated, to be plain in the beginning. I shall, therefore, commence with that period which begins to throw fome light upon it. All the antecedent occurrences of my life do not only concentre, but are also repeated therein. As for the rest, I am easy about the fate of these sheets, which the world will not see before I am gone to my eternal home; and will take no other revenge on my enemies, than to convince them that I deserved leaft to be envied in the most envied period of my life.

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