The Orphan of the Rhine/Volume 1

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THE

ORPHAN

OF THE

RHINE.

A Romance,

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

BY MRS. SLEATH.

"Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head,
Shakespeare.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED AT THE

Minerva-Press,

FOR WILLIAM LANE, LEADENHALL-STREET.

1798.

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The Author of the following pages presents them to the Public with a sentiment of respectful diffidence. She avows them as her first performance, and must therefore appeal to the candour and indulgence of the liberal.

As works of this kind are universally read, and, if written with discretion, are allowed by the strictest moralists to be, at least, innocent, she ​feels the less need of an apology for thus adding to the amply supplied treasury of literary amusement, of which this country boasts; and should her production contribute, in the smallest degree, to the entertainment of those who may honour it with a perusal, she will consider the hours spent in its composition as having been not unprofitably employed, and will deem her exertions, more than adequately rewarded.

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