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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... kind : I started up in the greatest haste im- aginable ; and in a trice clapped up my ladder to the middle place of the rock , and pulled it after me , and mounting it the second time , got to the top of the hill ; that very moment a ...
... kind : I started up in the greatest haste im- aginable ; and in a trice clapped up my ladder to the middle place of the rock , and pulled it after me , and mounting it the second time , got to the top of the hill ; that very moment a ...
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... kind of counter - stream , or eddy , were the occasion of my recovering then from the most desperate hopeless condition that ever I had been in all my life . Thus , what is one man's safety is another man's destruction ; for it seems ...
... kind of counter - stream , or eddy , were the occasion of my recovering then from the most desperate hopeless condition that ever I had been in all my life . Thus , what is one man's safety is another man's destruction ; for it seems ...
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... kind of rum , but not such as we had at the Brazils ; and , in a word , not at all good ; but when I came to open the chests , I found several things which I wanted : for exam- ple , I found in one a fine case of bottles , of an ex ...
... kind of rum , but not such as we had at the Brazils ; and , in a word , not at all good ; but when I came to open the chests , I found several things which I wanted : for exam- ple , I found in one a fine case of bottles , of an ex ...
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... kind have been the means of my coming into this miserable condition ; for had that Providence , which so happily had seated me at the Brazils as a planter , blessed me with confined desires , and could I have been contented to have gone ...
... kind have been the means of my coming into this miserable condition ; for had that Providence , which so happily had seated me at the Brazils as a planter , blessed me with confined desires , and could I have been contented to have gone ...
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... kind of destruction , viz . that of falling into the hands of cannibals and sa- vages , who would have seized on me with the same view as I did on a goat or a turtle , and have thought it no more a crime to kill and devour me , than I ...
... kind of destruction , viz . that of falling into the hands of cannibals and sa- vages , who would have seized on me with the same view as I did on a goat or a turtle , and have thought it no more a crime to kill and devour me , than 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.