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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... thought her a litt e pleasanter than ordinary , and told her , that my Thoughts were fo entirely bent upon feeing the World , that I fhould never fettle to any thing with Refolution enough to go through with it , and my Father had ...
... thought her a litt e pleasanter than ordinary , and told her , that my Thoughts were fo entirely bent upon feeing the World , that I fhould never fettle to any thing with Refolution enough to go through with it , and my Father had ...
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... expected every Wave would have fwallowed us up , and that every time the Ship fell down , as I thought , in the Trough or Hollow of the Sea , we fhould never rife more ; B 4 of [ 7 ] that time; but I fay, being there, ...
... expected every Wave would have fwallowed us up , and that every time the Ship fell down , as I thought , in the Trough or Hollow of the Sea , we fhould never rife more ; B 4 of [ 7 ] that time; but I fay, being there, ...
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... Thoughts continued all the while the Storm continued , and indeed fome time after ; but the next Day the Wind was ... thought , the moft delightful that ever I faw . I had flept well in the Night , and was now no more Sea - fick , but ...
... Thoughts continued all the while the Storm continued , and indeed fome time after ; but the next Day the Wind was ... thought , the moft delightful that ever I faw . I had flept well in the Night , and was now no more Sea - fick , but ...
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... thought the Bitterness of Death had been paft , and that this would be no- thing too like the firft . But when the ... Thoughts Thoughts I had about me at that time , I [ II ]
... thought the Bitterness of Death had been paft , and that this would be no- thing too like the firft . But when the ... Thoughts Thoughts I had about me at that time , I [ II ]
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... thought , died within me , and I fell backwards upon the Side of my Bed where I fat , into the Cabin . However , the Men roused me , and told me , that I that was able to do nothing before , was as well able to pump as another ; at ...
... thought , died within me , and I fell backwards upon the Side of my Bed where I fat , into the Cabin . However , the Men roused me , and told me , that I that was able to do nothing before , was as well able to pump as another ; at ...
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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.