THE

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

OF

TOBIAS SMOLLETT, M.D.

WITH

MEMOIRS

OF

HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS,

BY

ROBERT ANDERSON, M.D.

THE SIXTH EDITION, IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOLUME IV.

CONTAINING

THE ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM,

AND

EXPEDITION AGAINST CARTHAGENA.

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1820.

BOG. No. 5 0

CONTENTS

OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

To Doctor ******

THE ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM.

CHAP. 1. Some sage observations that naturally introduce our important

history

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II. A superficial view of our hero's infancy.......

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III. He is initiated in a military life, and has the good fortune to acquire a ge-

nerous patron

IV. His mother's prowess and death; together with some instances of his own

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V. A brief detail of his education.........

VI. He meditates schemes of importance.................................

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VII. Engages in partnership with a female associate, in order to put his talents

in action........

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VIII. Their first attempt: with a digression which some readers may think

impertinent.......

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IX. The confederates change their battery, and achieve a remarkable adven-

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X. They proceed to levy contributions, with great success, until our hero sets

out with the young count for Vienna, where he enters into league with ano-

ther adventurer

ture

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XI. Fathom makes various efforts in the world of gallantry

XII. He effects a lodgment in the house of a rich jeweller

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XIII. He is exposed to a most perilous incident in the course of his intrigue

with the daughter

XIV. He is reduced to a dreadful dilemma, in consequence of an assignation

with the wife

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XV. But at length succeeds in his attempt upon both

XVI. His successes begets a blind security, by which he is once again well

nigh entrapped in his Dulcinea's apartment.

XVII. The step-dame's suspicions being awakened, she lays a snare for our

adventurer, from which he is delivered by the interposition of his good

genius

75

XVIII. Our hero departs from Vienna, and quits the domains of Venus for the

rough field of Mars

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XIX. He puts himself under the guidance of his associate, and stumbles upon

the French camp, where he finishes his military career

XX. He prepares a stratagem, but finds himself countermined; proceeds on his

journey, and is overtaken by a terrible tempest.............................

XXI. He falls upon Scylla seeking to avoid Charybdis

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