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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... from the affliction we are fallen into . I could give many examples of this in the course of my unac- countable life ; but in nothing was it more particu- larly remarkable , than in the circumstances of my last OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 3.
... from the affliction we are fallen into . I could give many examples of this in the course of my unac- countable life ; but in nothing was it more particu- larly remarkable , than in the circumstances of my last OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 3.
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... give over till they found me out . In this extremity I went back directly to my castle , pulled up the ladder after me , having made all things without look as wild and natural as I could . Then I prepared myself within , putting myself ...
... give over till they found me out . In this extremity I went back directly to my castle , pulled up the ladder after me , having made all things without look as wild and natural as I could . Then I prepared myself within , putting myself ...
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... give thanks to God , who had so happily and comfortably provi- ded for me in my desolate condition ; and that of two ships companies , who were now cast away upon this part of the world , not one life should be spared but mine . I ...
... give thanks to God , who had so happily and comfortably provi- ded for me in my desolate condition ; and that of two ships companies , who were now cast away upon this part of the world , not one life should be spared but mine . I ...
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... give over my enterprise ; and having hauled my boat into a little creek on the shore , I stepped out , and sat me down upon a little spot of rising ground , very pensive and anxious , between fear and desire , about my voyage ; when ...
... give over my enterprise ; and having hauled my boat into a little creek on the shore , I stepped out , and sat me down upon a little spot of rising ground , very pensive and anxious , between fear and desire , about my voyage ; when ...
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... 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 to be retired into my castle , after my late voyage to the wreck ...
... 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 to be retired into my castle , after my late voyage to the wreck ...
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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.