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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... saved them- selves on shore by the help of their boat ; but the firing of their guns for help , especially when they saw , as I imagined , my fire , filled me with many thoughts : first , I imagined , that , upon seeing my light , they ...
... saved them- selves on shore by the help of their boat ; but the firing of their guns for help , especially when they saw , as I imagined , my fire , filled me with many thoughts : first , I imagined , that , upon seeing my light , they ...
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... saved ; nothing could make it rational , so much as to wish or expect that they did not all perish there , except the possibility only of their being taken up by another ship in com- pany and this was but mere possibility indeed ; for I ...
... saved ; nothing could make it rational , so much as to wish or expect that they did not all perish there , except the possibility only of their being taken up by another ship in com- pany and this was but mere possibility indeed ; for I ...
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... saved out of the ship , to have escaped to me , that I might but have had one companion , one fellow - creature to have spoken to me , and to have conversed with ! " In all the time of my solitary life , I never felt so earnest , so ...
... saved out of the ship , to have escaped to me , that I might but have had one companion , one fellow - creature to have spoken to me , and to have conversed with ! " In all the time of my solitary life , I never felt so earnest , so ...
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... me so much , as the possibility that there might be yet some living creature on board , whose life I might not only save , but might , by saving that life , com- fort my own to the last degree : and this OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 15.
... me so much , as the possibility that there might be yet some living creature on board , whose life I might not only save , but might , by saving that life , com- fort my own to the last degree : and this OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 15.
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... saving at so great a hazard . But as this is ordinarily the fate of young heads , so reflection upon the folly of it is as ordinarily the exercise of more years , or of the dear - bought experience of time ; and so it was with me now ...
... saving at so great a hazard . But as this is ordinarily the fate of young heads , so reflection upon the folly of it is as ordinarily the exercise of more years , or of the dear - bought experience of time ; and so it was with me now ...
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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.