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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... turned , and the flood came on , upon which my going was for so many hours impracticable ; upon this it pre- sently occurred to me , that I should go up to the highest piece of ground I could find , and observe , if I could , how the ...
... turned , and the flood came on , upon which my going was for so many hours impracticable ; upon this it pre- sently occurred to me , that I should go up to the highest piece of ground I could find , and observe , if I could , how the ...
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... as I could . When he came to him , he stood like one amazed , looking at him ; turned him first on one side , then on t'other ; looked at the wound the bullet had made , which it seems was just in his breast 40 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES.
... as I could . When he came to him , he stood like one amazed , looking at him ; turned him first on one side , then on t'other ; looked at the wound the bullet had made , which it seems was just in his breast 40 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES.
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... turned to go away , and beckoned him to follow me , making signs to him that more might come after them . Upon this he signed to me , that he should bury them with sand , that they might not be seen by the rest , if they followed ; and ...
... turned to go away , and beckoned him to follow me , making signs to him that more might come after them . Upon this he signed to me , that he should bury them with sand , that they might not be seen by the rest , if they followed ; and ...
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... turned very quick upon me at this ; " You do great deal much good , " says he ; " you teach wild mans be good , sober , tame mans ; you tell them know God , pray God , and live new life . ” - " Alas , Friday , " said I , " thou knowest ...
... turned very quick upon me at this ; " You do great deal much good , " says he ; " you teach wild mans be good , sober , tame mans ; you tell them know God , pray God , and live new life . ” - " Alas , Friday , " said I , " thou knowest ...
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... turned to Friday ; " Now , Friday , " said I , " do as I bid thee . " Friday said he would . " Then , Fri- day , " said I , " do exactly as you see me do ; fail in nothing . " So I set down one of the muskets and the fowling - piece ...
... turned to Friday ; " Now , Friday , " said I , " do as I bid thee . " Friday said he would . " Then , Fri- day , " said I , " do exactly as you see me do ; fail in nothing . " So I set down one of the muskets and the fowling - piece ...
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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.