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AD LECTOREM.
Herein lies a Mystery,
If you but knew it!
Peruse this strange History—
You'll never see thro' it,
Till Love learns your blunder
And comes to assist you:
When, smiling and weeping,
With heart wildly leaping,
You'll find, to your wonder,
God's Angels have kissed you!
If you but knew it!
Peruse this strange History—
You'll never see thro' it,
Till Love learns your blunder
And comes to assist you:
When, smiling and weeping,
With heart wildly leaping,
You'll find, to your wonder,
God's Angels have kissed you!
GENTLE READER,
Read herein,
English'd and versified out of the Double Dutch,
THE STRANGE FLIGHTS
of
PHILIP VANDERDECKEN,
called the Flying Dutchman,
Being a Record of
His Amours in all climes and countries;
His experiences of all complexions;
His Conversations
with the great Goethe, and other persons of
reputation, some still living;
His curious and often improper Reflections on
Men, Manners, and Morals;
with a full, true, and particular account of
His Various Religious Opinions;
The whole showing, in a series of
Startling Episodes,
How, having been
Damned,
By reading the philosophy of Spinoza,
He was finally
Saved
By the Love of a Woman.
Read herein,
English'd and versified out of the Double Dutch,
THE STRANGE FLIGHTS
of
PHILIP VANDERDECKEN,
called the Flying Dutchman,
Being a Record of
His Amours in all climes and countries;
His experiences of all complexions;
His Conversations
with the great Goethe, and other persons of
reputation, some still living;
His curious and often improper Reflections on
Men, Manners, and Morals;
with a full, true, and particular account of
His Various Religious Opinions;
The whole showing, in a series of
Startling Episodes,
How, having been
Damned,
By reading the philosophy of Spinoza,
He was finally
Saved
By the Love of a Woman.
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