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Excerpt from The Works of Henry Fielding, Vol. 6: Miscellanies
There is, as is now well known since Mr. Dob son's separate edition of the Voyage, a little bib liographical problem about the first appearance of this Journal in 1755. The best known issue of that year is much shorter than the version in serted by Murphy and reprinted here, the pas sages omitted being chiefly those reflecting on the captain, etc., and so likely to seem invidious in a book published just after the author's death, and for the benefit, as was expressly announced, Of his family. But the curious thing is that there is another edition, of date so early that some argu ment is necessary to determine the priority, which does give these passages and is identical with the later or standard version. For satisfaction on this point, however, I must refer readers to Mr. Dobson himself.
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