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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... that could I have but en- joyed the certainty that no savages would come to the place to disturb me , I could have been con- tent to have capitulated for spending the rest of my VOL . II . time there , even to the last moment , till.
... that could I have but en- joyed the certainty that no savages would come to the place to disturb me , I could have been con- tent to have capitulated for spending the rest of my VOL . II . time there , even to the last moment , till.
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... rest to God's providence , I thought the impression was so strong upon my mind , that it could not be re- sisted , that it must come from some invisible direc- tion , and that I should be wanting to myself if I did not go . Under the ...
... rest to God's providence , I thought the impression was so strong upon my mind , that it could not be re- sisted , that it must come from some invisible direc- tion , and that I should be wanting to myself if I did not go . Under the ...
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... rest of her people I then knew not . I found , besides these chests , a little cask full of liquor , of about twenty gallons , which I got into my boat with much difficulty . There were several muskets in a cabin , and a great powder ...
... rest of her people I then knew not . I found , besides these chests , a little cask full of liquor , of about twenty gallons , which I got into my boat with much difficulty . There were several muskets in a cabin , and a great powder ...
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... rest , and I resolved , if possible , to get one of these sava- ges into my hands , cost what it would : the next thing then was to contrive how to do it ; and this indeed was very difficult to resolve on : but as I could pitch upon no ...
... rest , and I resolved , if possible , to get one of these sava- ges into my hands , cost what it would : the next thing then was to contrive how to do it ; and this indeed was very difficult to resolve on : but as I could pitch upon no ...
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... rest of it , viz . that the other savage would not pur- sue him thither , and find him there . However , I kept my station , and my spirits began to recover , when I found that there were not above three men that followed him ; and ...
... rest of it , viz . that the other savage would not pur- sue him thither , and find him there . However , I kept my station , and my spirits began to recover , when I found that there were not above three men that followed him ; and ...
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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.