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The History of Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams
The authentic history with which now present the public is an instance of the great good that book is likely to do, and of the prevalence of example which have just observed; since it will appear that it was by keeping the excellent pattern of his sister's virtues before his eyes, that Mr Joseph Andrews was chiefly enabled to preserve his purity in the midst of such great temptations. I shall only add that this character of male chastity, though doubtless as desirable and becoming in one part of the human species as in the other, is almost the only virtue which the great apologist hath not given himself for the sake of giving the example to his readers.
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