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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... began to be very well contented with the life I led , if it might but have been secured from the dread of savages . But it was otherwise directed ; and it might not be amiss for all people , who shall meet with my story , to make this ...
... began to be very well contented with the life I led , if it might but have been secured from the dread of savages . But it was otherwise directed ; and it might not be amiss for all people , who shall meet with my story , to make this ...
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... began to be mighty impatient for intelligence abroad , for I had no spies to send out . After sitting a while longer , and musing what I should do in this case , I was not able to bear sitting in ignorance longer ; so setting up my ...
... began to be mighty impatient for intelligence abroad , for I had no spies to send out . After sitting a while longer , and musing what I should do in this case , I was not able to bear sitting in ignorance longer ; so setting up my ...
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... began afterwards to be more sedate in my mind , being satisfied that I might go abroad with safety all the time of tide of flood , if they were not on shore before ; and having made this observation , I went abroad about my harvest work ...
... began afterwards to be more sedate in my mind , being satisfied that I might go abroad with safety all the time of tide of flood , if they were not on shore before ; and having made this observation , I went abroad about my harvest work ...
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... began now to premeditate the destruction of the next that I saw there , let them be who , or how many soever . It seemed evident to me , that the visits which they thus made to this island were not very fre- quent ; for it was above ...
... began now to premeditate the destruction of the next that I saw there , let them be who , or how many soever . It seemed evident to me , that the visits which they thus made to this island were not very fre- quent ; for it was above ...
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... began to fail me ; for I foresaw , that if I was driven into either of those currents , I should be carried a vast way out to sea , and perhaps out of my reach , or sight of the island again ; and that then , as my boat was but small ...
... began to fail me ; for I foresaw , that if I was driven into either of those currents , I should be carried a vast way out to sea , and perhaps out of my reach , or sight of the island again ; and that then , as my boat was but small ...
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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.