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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... poor Spaniard - List of the Killed and Wounded - Discover a poor Indian bound in one of the Canoes , who turns out to be Friday's Father ........ 75 CHAP . V. I learn from the Spaniard that there were sixteen more of his Countrymen ...
... poor Spaniard - List of the Killed and Wounded - Discover a poor Indian bound in one of the Canoes , who turns out to be Friday's Father ........ 75 CHAP . V. I learn from the Spaniard that there were sixteen more of his Countrymen ...
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... poor Robin Crusoe to this day ; I wish no Englishman the ill luck to come there and hear them ; but if he did , he would certainly believe it was the devil . My dog was a very pleasant and loving companion to me for no less than sixteen ...
... poor Robin Crusoe to this day ; I wish no Englishman the ill luck to come there and hear them ; but if he did , he would certainly believe it was the devil . My dog was a very pleasant and loving companion to me for no less than sixteen ...
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... poor wooden calendar would reckon , for I marked all upon the post still ; I say , it was on the sixteenth of May , that it blew a great storm of wind all day , with a great deal of lightning and thunder , and a very foul night was ...
... poor wooden calendar would reckon , for I marked all upon the post still ; I say , it was on the sixteenth of May , that it blew a great storm of wind all day , with a great deal of lightning and thunder , and a very foul night was ...
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... poor men , and pity them ; which had still this good effect on my side , that it gave me more and more cause to give thanks to God , who had so happily and comfortably provi- ded for me in my desolate condition ; and that of two ships ...
... poor men , and pity them ; which had still this good effect on my side , that it gave me more and more cause to give thanks to God , who had so happily and comfortably provi- ded for me in my desolate condition ; and that of two ships ...
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... poor creature some fresh water , with which , if I would have let him , he would have burst him- self . After this I went on board . The first sight I met with was two men drowned in the cook - room , or forecastle of the ship , with ...
... poor creature some fresh water , with which , if I would have let him , he would have burst him- self . After this I went on board . The first sight I met with was two men drowned in the cook - room , or forecastle of the ship , with ...
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afterwards arms asked bade began boat boatswain Brazils bread brought called canoes captain carry cave charter-party corn creek dead deliverance devoured dram English Englishmen escape fellow fetch fire five four muskets Friday Friday's father frighted gave give gone governor hallooed hands heard island killed kind knew land Lisbon little creek lived looked mate mean mind moidores murder muskets never night noise occasion parley perceived pieces pieces of eight pinnace pistol plantation planted poor creatures Portugal Portuguese presently prisoners Providence resolved rest sail savages Savages land saved seems sent shewed ship shoot shore shot side sight soon Spaniards starved stood sure surprised sword tell thing thither thought three muskets tion told Tom Smith took tree voyage wind wolves wood word wounded
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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.