The Life and Aventures of Robinson Crusoe: To which is Prefixed a Biographical Memoir of Daniel De Foe, Volume 2James Ballantyne, 1810 |
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... English tolerably - A Dialogue - 1 instruct him in the knowledge of Religion , and find him very apt - He describes to me some white men who had come to his Nation , and still lived there , 50 CHAP . IV . I determine to go over to the ...
... English tolerably - A Dialogue - 1 instruct him in the knowledge of Religion , and find him very apt - He describes to me some white men who had come to his Nation , and still lived there , 50 CHAP . IV . I determine to go over to the ...
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... English make a Voyage to the Main- Land , and return in twenty - two days - Particulars of their Voyage - Description of the Men and Women they brought with them - The Colony discovered by an un- lucky accident to the Savages , who ...
... English make a Voyage to the Main- Land , and return in twenty - two days - Particulars of their Voyage - Description of the Men and Women they brought with them - The Colony discovered by an un- lucky accident to the Savages , who ...
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... English shoes and stockings , which were things I greatly wanted , but had not had on my feet now for many years ; I had , indeed , got two pair of shoes now , which I took off the feet of the two drowned men whom I saw in the wreck ...
... English shoes and stockings , which were things I greatly wanted , but had not had on my feet now for many years ; I had , indeed , got two pair of shoes now , which I took off the feet of the two drowned men whom I saw in the wreck ...
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... English tolerably - A Dialogue - I instruct him in the know- ledge of Religion , and find him very apt - He de- scribes to me some white Men who had come to his and still lived there . AFTER I had been two or three days returned to my ...
... English tolerably - A Dialogue - I instruct him in the know- ledge of Religion , and find him very apt - He de- scribes to me some white Men who had come to his and still lived there . AFTER I had been two or three days returned to my ...
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... English so well , that he could an- swer me almost any questions , I asked him , whether the nation that he belonged to never conquered in battle ? At which he smiled and said , Yes , yes , we always fight the better ; " that is , he ...
... English so well , that he could an- swer me almost any questions , I asked him , whether the nation that he belonged to never conquered in battle ? At which he smiled and said , Yes , yes , we always fight the better ; " that is , he ...
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Page 42 - His hair was long and black, not curled like wool; his forehead very high and large, and a great vivacity and sparkling sharpness in his eyes. The colour of his skin was not quite black, but very tawny; and yet not of an ugly yellow nauseous tawny, as the Brazilians and Virginians, and other natives of America are; but of a bright kind of a dun olive colour, that had in it something very agreeable, though not very easy to describe. His face was round and plump; his nose small, not flat like the negroes;...
Page 211 - ... and the men of labour spent their strength in daily strugglings for bread to maintain the vital strength they laboured with ; so living in a daily circulation of sorrow, living but to work, and working but to live, as if daily bread were the only end of wearisome life, and a wearisome life the only occasion of daily bread.
Page 43 - I was very well pleased with him. In a little time I began to speak to him, and teach him to speak to me ; and first, I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life ; and 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.