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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... trees , and bred there , which was very agreeable to me ; so that , as I said above , I began to be very well contented with the life I led , if it might but have been secured from the dread of savages . But it was otherwise directed ...
... trees , and bred there , which was very agreeable to me ; so that , as I said above , I began to be very well contented with the life I led , if it might but have been secured from the dread of savages . But it was otherwise directed ...
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... tree , or the casual approach of night , had been be- tween me and the worst kind of destruction , viz . that of falling into the hands of cannibals and sa- vages , who would have seized on me with the same view as I did on a goat or a ...
... tree , or the casual approach of night , had been be- tween me and the worst kind of destruction , viz . that of falling into the hands of cannibals and sa- vages , who would have seized on me with the same view as I did on a goat or a ...
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... tree within shot ; so , to let Friday understand a little what I would do , I called him to me again , pointing at the fowl , which was indeed a parrot , though I thought it had been a hawk ; I say , pointing to the parrot , and to my ...
... tree within shot ; so , to let Friday understand a little what I would do , I called him to me again , pointing at the fowl , which was indeed a parrot , though I thought it had been a hawk ; I say , pointing to the parrot , and to my ...
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... tree proper to fell , and make a large periagua or canoe , to undertake the voyage : there were trees enough in the ... tree ; for I found he knew much better than I what kind of wood was fittest for it ; nor can I tell to this day what ...
... tree proper to fell , and make a large periagua or canoe , to undertake the voyage : there were trees enough in the ... tree ; for I found he knew much better than I what kind of wood was fittest for it ; nor can I tell to this day what ...
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... tree out , to make it into a boat : but I shewed him how rather to cut it out with tools , which after I shewed him how to use , he did very handily ; and in about a month's hard la- bour we finished it , and made it very handsome ...
... tree out , to make it into a boat : but I shewed him how rather to cut it out with tools , which after I shewed him how to use , he did very handily ; and in about a month's hard la- bour we finished it , and made it very handsome ...
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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.