The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight & Twenty Years All Alone in an Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America Near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck Wherin All the Men Perished But Himself. With an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Delivered by Pyrates. Written by Himself...John Stockdale, 1790 |
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Page 142
... present state . One morning , being very fad , I opened the bible upon thefe words , I will never , never leave thee , nor forfake thee ! Immediately it occurred , that these words were to me , why elfe fhould they be directed in fuch a ...
... present state . One morning , being very fad , I opened the bible upon thefe words , I will never , never leave thee , nor forfake thee ! Immediately it occurred , that these words were to me , why elfe fhould they be directed in fuch a ...
Page 165
... present condition , with all its hardfhips and misfor- tunes and this part alfo I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt in their misery to fay , Is any affliction like mine ? let them confider , how much worfe the ...
... present condition , with all its hardfhips and misfor- tunes and this part alfo I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt in their misery to fay , Is any affliction like mine ? let them confider , how much worfe the ...
Page 177
... present surprize of joy was , and how gladly I put my boat into the stream of this eddy ; and the wind also freshening , how gladly I spread my fail to it , running chearfully before the wind , and with a strong tide or eddy under foot ...
... present surprize of joy was , and how gladly I put my boat into the stream of this eddy ; and the wind also freshening , how gladly I spread my fail to it , running chearfully before the wind , and with a strong tide or eddy under foot ...
Page 204
... present supply to me upon every occafion , and began to be fufficient for me , without the expence of powder and fhot , but alfo abated the fatigue of my hunting hunting after the wild ones ; and I was loth 204 LIFE AND ADVENTURÉS.
... present supply to me upon every occafion , and began to be fufficient for me , without the expence of powder and fhot , but alfo abated the fatigue of my hunting hunting after the wild ones ; and I was loth 204 LIFE AND ADVENTURÉS.
Page 211
... present condition there were not really many things which I wanted , fo indeed I thought that the frights I had been in about these favage wretches , and the concern I had been in for my own prefervation , had taken off the edge of my ...
... present condition there were not really many things which I wanted , fo indeed I thought that the frights I had been in about these favage wretches , and the concern I had been in for my own prefervation , had taken off the edge of my ...
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Page 190 - I went up to a rising ground to look farther; I went up the shore, and down the shore, but it was all one; I could see no other impression but that one. I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to observe if it might not be my fancy; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the very print of a foot, toes, heel, and every part of a foot; how it came thither I knew not, nor could in the least imagine.
Page 193 - ... (for so I think I called it ever after this), I fled into it like one pursued ; whether I went over by the ladder, as first...
Page 293 - It was remarkable, too, we had but three subjects, and they were of three different religions. My man Friday was a Protestant, his father was a Pagan and a cannibal, and the Spaniard was a Papist. However, I allowed liberty of conscience throughout my dominions.
Page 84 - I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it, especially if I had had tools...
Page 250 - I likewise taught him to say Master, and then let him know that was to be my name ; I likewise taught him to say Yes and No, and to know the meaning of them.
Page 194 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 250 - ... not very easy to describe. His face was round and plump; his nose small, not flat like the Negroes', a very good mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well set, and white as ivory.
Page 293 - Secondly, my people were perfectly subjected. I was absolute lord and lawgiver; they all owed their lives to me, and were ready to lay down their lives, if there had been occasion of it, for me.
Page 70 - E'en remain where thou art and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving.