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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... standing , or cut , or any of my works and improvements , they would immediately con- clude that there were people in the place , and would then never give over till they found me out . In this extremity I went back directly to my ...
... standing , or cut , or any of my works and improvements , they would immediately con- clude that there were people in the place , and would then never give over till they found me out . In this extremity I went back directly to my ...
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... standing so , however , that my head did not appear above the hill , so that they could not perceive me by any means . Here I observed , by the help of my perspective glass , that they were no less than thirty in number ; that they had ...
... standing so , however , that my head did not appear above the hill , so that they could not perceive me by any means . Here I observed , by the help of my perspective glass , that they were no less than thirty in number ; that they had ...
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... standing by himself , till they should be ready for him . In that very moment this poor wretch see- ing himself a little at liberty , nature inspired him with hopes of life , and he started away from them , and ran with incredible ...
... standing by himself , till they should be ready for him . In that very moment this poor wretch see- ing himself a little at liberty , nature inspired him with hopes of life , and he started away from them , and ran with incredible ...
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... standing on the other side , looked at the other , but went no farther ; and soon after went softly back again , which , as it happened , was very well for him in the main . I observed , that the two who swam were yet more than twice as ...
... standing on the other side , looked at the other , but went no farther ; and soon after went softly back again , which , as it happened , was very well for him in the main . I observed , that the two who swam were yet more than twice as ...
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... stand them , yet I thought they were pleasant to hear , for they were the first sound of a man's voice that I had heard , my own excepted , for above five- and - twenty years . But there was no time for such reflections now : the savage ...
... stand them , yet I thought they were pleasant to hear , for they were the first sound of a man's voice that I had heard , my own excepted , for above five- and - twenty years . But there was no time for such reflections now : the savage ...
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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.