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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... four and twen- tieth year , I had a very strange encounter with them , of which in its place . The perturbation of my mind , during this fifteen or sixteen months interval , was very great ; I slept unquiet , dreamed always frightful ...
... four and twen- tieth year , I had a very strange encounter with them , of which in its place . The perturbation of my mind , during this fifteen or sixteen months interval , was very great ; I slept unquiet , dreamed always frightful ...
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... four pounds of powder in it as for the mus- kets , I had no occasion for them , so I left them , but took the powder - horn . I took a fire - shovel and tongs , which I wanted extremely ; as also two little brass kettles , a copper pot ...
... four pounds of powder in it as for the mus- kets , I had no occasion for them , so I left them , but took the powder - horn . I took a fire - shovel and tongs , which I wanted extremely ; as also two little brass kettles , a copper pot ...
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... four pair of 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 ...
... four pair of 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 ...
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... of Peru had before the Spani- ards came thither . It was one of the nights in the rainy season in March , the four - and - twentieth year of my first set- ting foot in this island of solitariness , I was 26 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES.
... of Peru had before the Spani- ards came thither . It was one of the nights in the rainy season in March , the four - and - twentieth year of my first set- ting foot in this island of solitariness , I was 26 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES.
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... four , or six , or sometimes more , in a boat , I could not tell what to think of it , or how to take any measures to attack twenty or thirty men single - handed ; so I lay still in my castle , perplexed and discomforted ; however , I ...
... four , or six , or sometimes more , in a boat , I could not tell what to think of it , or how to take any measures to attack twenty or thirty men single - handed ; so I lay still in my castle , perplexed and discomforted ; however , I ...
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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.