Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-02-03
I2ein N0bel.
PROPOSALS,
FOR PRINTING By SUBSCRIPTION,
THE LIFE OF
JASON FAIRBANKS:
Il NOVEL
FOUNDED ON FACT.
WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS
TRIAL AND EXECUTION
BY Gentleman of Maaa,huietts.
BY a Gentleman of Maaa,huietts.
Ex,,aa from The Preface.

Ex,raa from The Preface.
GIN recording the .dions o! thoie Pefires.'s'
whole lives are TO be monit.>y examples OF tae
pa.lio..s, and the dreadful conlequences OF inc"
unila,i,ed neutrality-suspicious., as we'll as tca
iibil;,y and principle, ihould prompt Us to CO II
!, fuch manner, as to unite the greatei1 pol.
ale utility to the public, with the catt psillol-
Jury TO the feeling, Of their friends. On "a
f,rmer principle, tbs :hyie ihon;d not DC 700
much e.e ated, nor ihould it be too h:ghiy
charged with that kind OF tentimeEt, "hi>n'
however fashionable it may be, tends only m''ai'
TER to the sefnement and corruption q iani
peredinagnation.
AS the TAGS in themlelves 9and in N n,ed
of co.ouring or emLeliiihment TO heigh;e.' ths'
eG:a-fo neither will the limplicity f the M
raj, winch 70 naturally A,ws from them. derive
Al new force from rhetorical decoration. J lie
ftyle therefore ihould be Gmps and narrative
without affeefation or faiie ientin,ent. in oree
to Nriae with undivided inp.eflon, the eurioiity,
as we'll a. the understanding OF the YOU hiu' and
gay. Itihould be intermns lied with tulh retiee'
tlo.s and remarks only are intimately connect
G.: with the svsnts, and flow immediately !tc'i!
than.
{" The Hiaory Of JASON FAIRBANKS,
mua neeeGarily be kiad Of Hiltory ct the t,u,
man Heart, wandering under the delut'Ons Of
dif ,rdered imagination, ir!ctiltasle pin ms, s:n
perhaps the poiionous coniequence. OF wicket
and viGunary theories, Whole effects he COULD Ill
deed feel, but whole tall: hood and phiitfy.
h. had neither the maturity o! Judgment mol
l.4rning, to dcfple or de;ict.
&" The min revol,s from evident taltehoot
ana fcton l,f=s its force, when j, departs IRON
rnessre1enblance ofreahty. As the actiol'' there
re, and the incidents are extremely iini;e;' a.!O
ne ecency f the event, (however pi us migE'
the in,ention) preeiudes the iubittut'or OF &c
ARA fiction, iuvh only can be introduced, asi
in III. mott intimate analogy with ,he.iuhj.d
ana might be iuppoftd reality, with u ally
violation Of truth or probability. The graven
b 10 ials turn,ia from their own Eosk. tn
Ip esne, e their orators, and the hlrangucs o.
tnr,e l.,r es and the wife fayings they put int
tn mouh of all their great men, ierve TO il'nI
tr .te II the mott it1king point o. view, 'h>
manner OF thinking mof peculiar to the ,haac
,.r, and the ii,uations If .hele they Celebrate
thus far, then, an author may I've allowed t.
proceed, fulfilled by authority, and invited ~
fublic qcod:-whatever fentinents, therefore
may be fuppofed analogous to ,hoie opinions
and illuirative Of th'ie dhpofiti, ns, which pro-
duced the various incidents, and eventually the
tragic f,ere in which the whole terminated, may
ne eouhdered as the faithful tranlcrips, rot in
deed Of hat was actually written or ipoken, but
Of what was thought and intended by the princi.
pal a6sor in this fatal cataltrolhe