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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... Bear - Terrible En- gagement with a whole Army of Wolves - Arrive in England safely , and settle my affairs there - I Marry , and have a Family .... CHAP . IX . ... 182 Reflections - Unsettled state of Mind and Conversation with my Wife ...
... Bear - Terrible En- gagement with a whole Army of Wolves - Arrive in England safely , and settle my affairs there - I Marry , and have a Family .... CHAP . IX . ... 182 Reflections - Unsettled state of Mind and Conversation with my Wife ...
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... bear sitting in ignorance longer ; so setting up my ladder to the side of the hill , where there was a flat place , as I observed before , and then pulling the ladder up after me , I set it up again , and mounted to the top of the hill ...
... bear sitting in ignorance longer ; so setting up my ladder to the side of the hill , where there was a flat place , as I observed before , and then pulling the ladder up after me , I set it up again , and mounted to the top of the hill ...
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... bear it , and were strang- led with the constant rushing in of the water , as much as if they had been under water . Besides the dog , there was nothing left in the ship that had life , nor any goods that I could see , but what were ...
... bear it , and were strang- led with the constant rushing in of the water , as much as if they had been under water . Besides the dog , there was nothing left in the ship that had life , nor any goods that I could see , but what were ...
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... bear to see them , if I went that way : all which he punctually performed , and defaced the very appearance of the savages being there ; so that when I went again , I could scarce know where it was , otherwise than by the corner of the ...
... bear to see them , if I went that way : all which he punctually performed , and defaced the very appearance of the savages being there ; so that when I went again , I could scarce know where it was , otherwise than by the corner of the ...
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... bear their confinement with patience , and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have provisions and a light left them ; for Friday gave them candles ( such as we made ourselves ) for their comfort ; and they did not ...
... bear their confinement with patience , and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have provisions and a light left them ; for Friday gave them candles ( such as we made ourselves ) for their comfort ; and they did not ...
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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.