Preface
A preface to t edition of “Jane Eyre” being unnecessary, I gave none: tion demands a fe and miscellaneous remark.
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to ts suffrage o an obscure aspirant.
to my Publisact, tical sense and frank liberality hor.
t vague personifications for me, and I must terms; but my Publise: so are certain generous critics ruggling stranger; to to my Publis Revielemen, I t.
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trically opposed: tinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound t be confounded: appearance s be mistaken for trutrines, t only tend to elate and magnify a feituted for t. t it—a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly tion bethem.
t like to see t omed to blend t convenient to make external serling o let inise and expose—to rase tal under it—to penetrate t e as it is indebted to him.
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t framed to tickle delicate ears: ones of society, mucrut-like and as vital—a mien as dauntless and as