The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 16, Part 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English literature |
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... consider their old friend Robinson Crusoe as a mere school - boy acquaintance , may wonder to see him in such good company as the Sir Charleses and the Lady Betties of fashionable life . But the truth is , this favourite of our early ...
... consider their old friend Robinson Crusoe as a mere school - boy acquaintance , may wonder to see him in such good company as the Sir Charleses and the Lady Betties of fashionable life . But the truth is , this favourite of our early ...
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... consider , whither I should steer ; for any where , to get out of that place , was my way . My first contrivance was to make a pretence to speak to this Moor , to get something for our sub- sistence on board ; for I told him we must not ...
... consider , whither I should steer ; for any where , to get out of that place , was my way . My first contrivance was to make a pretence to speak to this Moor , to get something for our sub- sistence on board ; for I told him we must not ...
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... consider . The generous treatment the captain gave me , I can never enough remember : he would take no- thing of me for my passage , gave me twenty ducats for the leopard's skin , and forty for the lion's skin , which I had in my boat ...
... consider . The generous treatment the captain gave me , I can never enough remember : he would take no- thing of me for my passage , gave me twenty ducats for the leopard's skin , and forty for the lion's skin , which I had in my boat ...
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... consider what would be my lot if there were any ravenous beasts in that country , seeing at night they always come abroad for their prey . All the remedy that offered to my thoughts , at that time , was , to get up into a thick bushy ...
... consider what would be my lot if there were any ravenous beasts in that country , seeing at night they always come abroad for their prey . All the remedy that offered to my thoughts , at that time , was , to get up into a thick bushy ...
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... considering this . I first laid all the planks or boards upon it that I could get , and having considered well what I most wanted , I got three of the seamen's chests , which I had broken open and emptied , and lowered them down upon my ...
... considering this . I first laid all the planks or boards upon it that I could get , and having considered well what I most wanted , I got three of the seamen's chests , which I had broken open and emptied , and lowered them down upon my ...
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Page 170 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.
Page 174 - Upon this, rising cheerfully out of my bed, my heart was not only comforted, but I was guided and encouraged to pray earnestly to God for deliverance. When I had done praying, I took up my Bible, and opening it to read, the first words that presented to me were, " Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and He shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.
Page 174 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 226 - I smiled at him, and looked pleasantly, and beckoned to him to come still nearer : at length he came close to me ; and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and laid his head upon the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head ; this, it seems, was in token of swearing to be mv slave for ever.
Page 64 - what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no, not the taking off of the ground; one of those knives is worth all this heap.