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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... Captain and Mate of the Vessel , and a Passenger - Secure the Mutineers ... ... 103 CHAP . VI . The Ship makes signals for her Boat - On receiving no an- swer , she sends another Boat on shore - Methods by which we secure this Boat's ...
... Captain and Mate of the Vessel , and a Passenger - Secure the Mutineers ... ... 103 CHAP . VI . The Ship makes signals for her Boat - On receiving no an- swer , she sends another Boat on shore - Methods by which we secure this Boat's ...
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... captain ; and that they should swear upon the holy Sacraments and Gospel , to be true to me , and go to such Chris- tian country as I should agree to , and no other ; and to be directed wholly and absolutely by my orders , till they ...
... captain ; and that they should swear upon the holy Sacraments and Gospel , to be true to me , and go to such Chris- tian country as I should agree to , and no other ; and to be directed wholly and absolutely by my orders , till they ...
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... captain wisely reserving his own piece : they had so well aimed their shot at the men they knew , that one of them was killed on the spot , and the other very much wounded ; but not being dead , he started up on his feet , and called ...
... captain wisely reserving his own piece : they had so well aimed their shot at the men they knew , that one of them was killed on the spot , and the other very much wounded ; but not being dead , he started up on his feet , and called ...
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... captain told them he would spare their lives , if they would give him any assurance of their abhorrence of the treachery they had been guilty of , and would swear to be faithful to him in recovering the ship , and afterwards in carrying ...
... captain told them he would spare their lives , if they would give him any assurance of their abhorrence of the treachery they had been guilty of , and would swear to be faithful to him in recovering the ship , and afterwards in carrying ...
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... captain admi- red my fortification ; and how perfectly I had con- cealed my retreat with a grove of trees , which , having now been planted near twenty years , and the trees growing much faster than in England , was become a little wood ...
... captain admi- red my fortification ; and how perfectly I had con- cealed my retreat with a grove of trees , which , having now been planted near twenty years , and the trees growing much faster than in England , was become a little wood ...
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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.