The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; ...W. Taylor, 1719 - 364 pages |
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... Head began to be fill'd very early with rambling Thoughts : My Father , who was very ancient , had given me a competent Share of Learning , as far as Houfe - Education , and a Country Free - School generally goes , and defign'd me for ...
... Head began to be fill'd very early with rambling Thoughts : My Father , who was very ancient , had given me a competent Share of Learning , as far as Houfe - Education , and a Country Free - School generally goes , and defign'd me for ...
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... Head , not fold to the Life of Sla- very for daily Bread , or harrafs'd with perplex'd Circumftances which rob the Soul of Peace , and the Body of Beft ; not enrag'd with the Paffion of Envy , or fecret burning Luft of Ambition for ...
... Head , not fold to the Life of Sla- very for daily Bread , or harrafs'd with perplex'd Circumftances which rob the Soul of Peace , and the Body of Beft ; not enrag'd with the Paffion of Envy , or fecret burning Luft of Ambition for ...
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... head , and the Cables vered out to the better End . · • By this Time it blew a terrible Storm indeed , and now I began to fee Terror and Amazement in the Faces even of the Seamen themfelves . The Ma- fter , tho ' vigilant in the ...
... head , and the Cables vered out to the better End . · • By this Time it blew a terrible Storm indeed , and now I began to fee Terror and Amazement in the Faces even of the Seamen themfelves . The Ma- fter , tho ' vigilant in the ...
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... Head of us was foundered . Two more Ships being driven from their Anchors , were run out of the Roads to Sea , at all Adventures , and that with not a Maft ftand- ing . The light Ships fared the beft , as not fo much labouring in the ...
... Head of us was foundered . Two more Ships being driven from their Anchors , were run out of the Roads to Sea , at all Adventures , and that with not a Maft ftand- ing . The light Ships fared the beft , as not fo much labouring in the ...
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... Head of us , ventured a Boat out to help us . It was with the utmost hazard the Boat came near us , but it was impoffible for us to get on Board , or for the Boat to lie near the Ship Side , till at laft the Men rowing very heartily ...
... Head of us , ventured a Boat out to help us . It was with the utmost hazard the Boat came near us , but it was impoffible for us to get on Board , or for the Boat to lie near the Ship Side , till at laft the Men rowing very heartily ...
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Page 175 - I could think of; and he came nearer and nearer, kneeling down every ten or twelve steps, in token of acknowledgment for my saving his life. 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 my slave for ever.
Page 130 - 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 175 - I beckoned him again to come to me, and gave him all the signs of encouragement that I could think of; and he came nearer and nearer, kneeling down every ten or twelve steps, in token of acknowledgment for my saving his life.
Page 35 - My raft was now strong enough to bear any reasonable weight; my next care was what to load it with and how to preserve what I laid upon it from the surf of the sea...
Page 178 - ... gestures to show it. At last he lays his head flat upon the ground, close to my foot, and sets my other foot upon his head, as he had done before ; and after this made all the signs to me of subjection, servitude, and submission imaginable, to let me know how he would serve me as long as he lived.