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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... voyage , arrive in England - Go down into Yorkshire , and find the great- er part of my Family dead - Resolve to go to Lisbon for information respecting my Plantation at the Brazils -Meet an old Friend there , by whose means I become ...
... voyage , arrive in England - Go down into Yorkshire , and find the great- er part of my Family dead - Resolve to go to Lisbon for information respecting my Plantation at the Brazils -Meet an old Friend there , by whose means I become ...
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... Voyage to the Main- Land , and return in twenty - two days - Particulars of their Voyage - Description of the Men and Women they brought with them - The Colony discovered by an un- lucky accident to the Savages , who invade the Island ...
... Voyage to the Main- Land , and return in twenty - two days - Particulars of their Voyage - Description of the Men and Women they brought with them - The Colony discovered by an un- lucky accident to the Savages , who invade the Island ...
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... voyage , took a quantity of bread , a great pot for fresh water , a compass to steer by , a bottle of rum , ( for I had still a great deal of that left , ) a basket . full of raisins ; and thus loading myself with every thing necessary ...
... voyage , took a quantity of bread , a great pot for fresh water , a compass to steer by , a bottle of rum , ( for I had still a great deal of that left , ) a basket . full of raisins ; and thus loading myself with every thing necessary ...
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... voyage ; when , as I was musing , I could perceive that the tide was 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 ...
... voyage ; when , as I was musing , I could perceive that the tide was 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 ...
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... voyage ; for by what I found in these two chests , I had room to suppose the ship had a great deal of wealth on board ; and if I may guess by the course she steered , she must have been bound from the Buenos Ayres , or the Rio de la ...
... voyage ; for by what I found in these two chests , I had room to suppose the ship had a great deal of wealth on board ; and if I may guess by the course she steered , she must have been bound from the Buenos Ayres , or the Rio de la ...
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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.