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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... reason of the constant apprehensions I was in of their coming upon me by surprise ; from whence I observe , that the expectation of evil is more bitter than the suffering , especially if there is OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 7.
... reason of the constant apprehensions I was in of their coming upon me by surprise ; from whence I observe , that the expectation of evil is more bitter than the suffering , especially if there is OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 7.
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... that for some time I could not part them again . Let the naturalists explain these things , and the reason and manner of them ; all I can say of them is , to describe the fact , which was ever 14 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES.
... that for some time I could not part them again . Let the naturalists explain these things , and the reason and manner of them ; all I can say of them is , to describe the fact , which was ever 14 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES.
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... reason told me , that there was nothing left there worth the hazard of my voyage ; sometimes for a ramble one way , sometimes another ; and I believe verily , if I had had the boat that I went from Sallee in , I should have ventured to ...
... reason told me , that there was nothing left there worth the hazard of my voyage ; sometimes for a ramble one way , sometimes another ; and I believe verily , if I had had the boat that I went from Sallee in , I should have ventured to ...
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... reasons to offer now , viz . that those men were enemies to my life , and would devour me , if they could ; that it was self - preservation , in the highest degree , to deliver myself from this death of a life , and was acting in my own ...
... reasons to offer now , viz . that those men were enemies to my life , and would devour me , if they could ; that it was self - preservation , in the highest degree , to deliver myself from this death of a life , and was acting in my own ...
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... reason to believe , never saw a sword in his life before , except their own wooden swords : however , it seems , as I learnt afterwards , they make their wooden swords so sharp , so heavy , and the wood is so hard , that they will cut ...
... reason to believe , never saw a sword in his life before , except their own wooden swords : however , it seems , as I learnt afterwards , they make their wooden swords so sharp , so heavy , and the wood is so hard , that they will cut ...
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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.