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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... ground , and began to look for the place . I presently found there were no less than nine naked savages sitting round a small fire they had made ; not to warm them , for they had no need of that , the weather being extreme hot ; but ...
... ground , and began to look for the place . I presently found there were no less than nine naked savages sitting round a small fire they had made ; not to warm them , for they had no need of that , the weather being extreme hot ; but ...
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... ground , very pensive and anxious , between fear and desire , about my voyage ; when , as I was musing , I could perceive that the tide was turned , and the flood came on , upon which my going was for so many hours impracticable ; upon ...
... ground , very pensive and anxious , between fear and desire , about my voyage ; when , as I was musing , I could perceive that the tide was turned , and the flood came on , upon which my going was for so many hours impracticable ; upon ...
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... in running , and gained ground of them ; so that if he could but hold it for half an hour , I saw easily he would fairly get away from them all . There was between them and my castle the creek , 36 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES.
... in running , and gained ground of them ; so that if he could but hold it for half an hour , I saw easily he would fairly get away from them all . There was between them and my castle the creek , 36 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES.
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... ground , and laid his head upon the ground , and taking me by the foot , set my foot upon his head . This , it seems , was in token of swearing to be my slave for ever . I took him up , and made much of him , and encouraged him all I ...
... ground , and laid his head upon the ground , and taking me by the foot , set my foot upon his head . This , it seems , was in token of swearing to be my slave for ever . I took him up , and made much of him , and encouraged him all I ...
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To which is Prefixed a Biographical Memoir of Daniel De Foe Daniel Defoe. ground ; and I perceived that my savage began to be afraid ; but when I saw that , I presented my other piece at the man , as if I would shoot him : upon this my ...
To which is Prefixed a Biographical Memoir of Daniel De Foe Daniel Defoe. ground ; and I perceived that my savage began to be afraid ; but when I saw that , I presented my other piece at the man , as if I would shoot him : upon this my ...
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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.