The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe1808 |
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... wife and family , and to him money to pay his fine and the expense of his discharge . Gratitude and fidelity are inseparable from an honest man ; and it was this benevolent act that prompted De Foe to support Harley , with his able and ...
... wife and family , and to him money to pay his fine and the expense of his discharge . Gratitude and fidelity are inseparable from an honest man ; and it was this benevolent act that prompted De Foe to support Harley , with his able and ...
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... wife and two daughters , for such the captain's son informed me he had ; with two pieces of fine English broad - cloth , the best I could get in Lisbon , five pieces of black bays , and some Flanders lace of a good value . Having thus ...
... wife and two daughters , for such the captain's son informed me he had ; with two pieces of fine English broad - cloth , the best I could get in Lisbon , five pieces of black bays , and some Flanders lace of a good value . Having thus ...
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... wife dying , and my nephew coming home with good success from a voyage to Spain , my inclination to go abroad , and his importunity , prevailed , and engaged me to go in his ship as a private trader to the East Indies . This was in the ...
... wife dying , and my nephew coming home with good success from a voyage to Spain , my inclination to go abroad , and his importunity , prevailed , and engaged me to go in his ship as a private trader to the East Indies . This was in the ...
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... wives to such as would take them . As to the Englishmen , I promised them to send them some women from England , with a good cargo of necessaries , if they would apply themselves to plant- ing ; which I afterwards could not perform ...
... wives to such as would take them . As to the Englishmen , I promised them to send them some women from England , with a good cargo of necessaries , if they would apply themselves to plant- ing ; which I afterwards could not perform ...
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... wife , who saw my mind so wholly bent upon it , told me very seriously one night , that she believed there was some secret powerful impulse of Providence upon me , which had determined me to go thither again ; and that she found nothing ...
... wife , who saw my mind so wholly bent upon it , told me very seriously one night , that she believed there was some secret powerful impulse of Providence upon me , which had determined me to go thither again ; and that she found nothing ...
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Page 154 - 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...
Page 208 - 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. I gave him some milk in an earthen pot, and let him see me drink it before him, and sop my bread in it.
Page 155 - 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 42 - I got upon my feet, and endeavoured to make on towards the land as fast as I could, before another wave should return and take me up again. But I soon found it was impossible to avoid it ; for I saw the sea come after me as high as a great hill, and as furious as an enemy which I had no means or strength to contend with...
Page 208 - 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.
Page 155 - When I came to my castle, 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 contrived, or went in at the hole in the rock, which I...
Page 157 - His creatures; that to have seen one of my own species would have seemed to me a raising me from death to life, and the greatest blessing that Heaven itself, next to the supreme blessing of salvation, could bestow...
Page 44 - I never saw them afterwards, or any sign of them except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes that were not fellows.
Page 206 - ... 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 208 - I called him so for the memory of the time. 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.