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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... brings intelligence of three Canoes of Savages on shore - Resolve to go down upon them - Friday and I fire upon the Wretches , and save the life of a poor Spaniard - List of the Killed and Wounded - Discover a poor Indian bound in one ...
... brings intelligence of three Canoes of Savages on shore - Resolve to go down upon them - Friday and I fire upon the Wretches , and save the life of a poor Spaniard - List of the Killed and Wounded - Discover a poor Indian bound in one ...
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... bring on the remaining part of my story , it may not be improper to give some account of my first conceptions on the subject of this foolish scheme for my escape ; and how , and upon what founda- tion , I acted . I am now to be supposed ...
... bring on the remaining part of my story , it may not be improper to give some account of my first conceptions on the subject of this foolish scheme for my escape ; and how , and upon what founda- tion , I acted . I am now to be supposed ...
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... bring hither to kill : but these thoughts still were attended with this difficulty , that it was impossible to effect this , without attacking a whole caravan of them , and killing them all ; and this was not only a very desperate ...
... bring hither to kill : but these thoughts still were attended with this difficulty , that it was impossible to effect this , without attacking a whole caravan of them , and killing them all ; and this was not only a very desperate ...
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... bring Friday off from his horrid way of feeding , and from the relish of a cannibal's stomach , I ought to let him taste other flesh ; so I took him out with me one morning to the woods : I went , indeed , intending to kill a kid out of ...
... bring Friday off from his horrid way of feeding , and from the relish of a cannibal's stomach , I ought to let him taste other flesh ; so I took him out with me one morning to the woods : I went , indeed , intending to kill a kid out of ...
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... bringing word from thence what he said , was much more so ; that if they met with any answer , or spoke with any one there , it must be with an evil spirit and then I entered into a long discourse with him about the devil , the original ...
... bringing word from thence what he said , was much more so ; that if they met with any answer , or spoke with any one there , it must be with an evil spirit and then I entered into a long discourse with him about the devil , the original ...
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afterwards arms asked bade began boat boatswain Brazils bread brought called canoes captain carry cave charter-party corn creek dead deliverance devoured dram English Englishmen escape fellow fetch fire five four muskets Friday Friday's father frighted gave give gone governor hallooed hands heard island killed kind knew land Lisbon little creek lived looked mate mean mind moidores murder muskets never night noise occasion parley perceived pieces pieces of eight pinnace pistol plantation planted poor creatures Portugal Portuguese presently prisoners Providence resolved rest sail savages Savages land saved seems sent shewed ship shoot shore shot side sight soon Spaniards starved stood sure surprised sword tell thing thither thought three muskets tion told Tom Smith took tree voyage wind wolves wood word wounded
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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.