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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... pieces their boat ; and some- times to throw it overboard with their own hands ; other times I imagined , they had some other ship or ships in company , who , upon the signals of dis- tress they had made , had taken them up , and car ...
... pieces their boat ; and some- times to throw it overboard with their own hands ; other times I imagined , they had some other ship or ships in company , who , upon the signals of dis- tress they had made , had taken them up , and car ...
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... pieces of eight , and a tobacco - pipe ; the last was to me of ten times more value than the first . It was now calm , and I had a great mind to ven- ture out in my boat to this wreck , not doubting but I might find something on board ...
... pieces of eight , and a tobacco - pipe ; the last was to me of ten times more value than the first . It was now calm , and I had a great mind to ven- ture out in my boat to this wreck , not doubting but I might find something on board ...
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... piece of ground I could find , and observe , if I could , how the sets of the tide or currents lay , when the flood came in , that I might judge whether , if I was driven one way out , I might not expect to be driven another way home ...
... piece of ground I could find , and observe , if I could , how the sets of the tide or currents lay , when the flood came in , that I might judge whether , if I was driven one way out , I might not expect to be driven another way home ...
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... in between two rocks ; all the stern and quarter of her was beaten to pieces with the sea ; and as her forecastle , which stuck in the rocks , had run on with great violence , her main - mast and fore 5 IS THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES.
... in between two rocks ; all the stern and quarter of her was beaten to pieces with the sea ; and as her forecastle , which stuck in the rocks , had run on with great violence , her main - mast and fore 5 IS THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES.
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... pieces of eight , which held about eleven hundred pieces in all ; and in one of them , OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 21.
... pieces of eight , which held about eleven hundred pieces in all ; and in one of them , OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 21.
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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.