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 Containing Scenes of matrimonial Felicity in different Degrees of Life, and various other Tranactions during the firt two Years after the Marriage between Captain Blifil, and Mis Bridget Allworthy.  Shewing what Kind of a Hitory this is; what it is like, and what it is not like.

HO’ we have properly enough entitled this our Work, a Hitory, and not a Life; nor an Apology for a Life, as is more in Fahion; yet we intend in it rather to purue the Method of