ABSTRACT
Contains a very brief account of some passages subsequent to the foregoing story,
with the Author’s remarks upon the whole. 55
BOOK II. CHAP. I. e Author, by the help of his Invisibility, has discover’d such a contrast in the
behaviour of two married couple of distinction, as he thinks would be the utmost injustice to the public to conceal. 57
CHAP. II. Relates a strange and most unnatural instance of bigotry and enthusiasm in a
parent. 63
CHAP. III. e Author nds means, tho’ with an in nite deal of di culty, to make a
discovery of some part of the unhappy consequences which immediately attended the cruel resolution Flaminio had taken in regard to his daughter. 70
CHAP. IV. Contains some farther and more interesting particulars of this adventure, and
shews that people, by ying om one thing which they think would be a misfortune, o en run into others of a nature much more to be dreaded. 76
CHAP. V. Completes the catastrophe of this truly tragical adventure. 81
CHAP. VI. Gives the account of an occurrence, no less remarkable than it is entertaining;
and shews that there is scarce any di culty so great but that it may be got over, by the help of a ready wit and invention, if properly exerted. 89
CHAP. VII. Is a continuance of this merry history, which presents something as little
expected by the reader as it was by the parties concern’d in it; and, if the Author’s hopes do not greatly deceive him, will also a ord an equal share of satisfaction as surprise. 96
CHAP. VIII. Presents something as little expected by the reader as it was by the parties
concern’d in it; and, if the Author’s hopes do not deceive him, will also a ord an equal share of satisfaction as surprise. 102
CHAP. IX. Contains a succinct account of some farther particulars, in some measure
relative to the foregoing adventure, and, besides, are of too agreeable and interesting a nature in themselves not to be look’d upon as a rightly judg’d, and very necessary appendix. 107
To the PUBLIC. I have observed that when a new book begins to make any noise in the world, as I am pretty certain this will do, every one is desirous of becoming acquainted with the author; and this impatience increases the more, the more he endeavours to conceal himself. – I expect to hear an hundred di erent names inscribed to the Invisible, – some of which I should, perhaps, be proud of, others as much ashamed to own. – Some will doubtless take me for a philosopher, – others for a fool; – with some I shall pass for a man of pleasure, – with others for a stoic; – some will look upon me as a courtier, – others as a patriot;1 – but whether I am any one of these, or whether I am even a man or a woman, they will nd it, a er all their conjectures, as di cult to discover as the longitude.2
