Romances and Narratives: Robinson CrusoeJ. M. Dent & Company, 1895 |
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Adventures afterwards barley began believe boat Brazils bread bring brought called canoe captain carried cave coast comfort condition corn creature Crusoe's danger DANIEL DEFOE Defoe Defoe's deliverance devoured dreadful father fire foot Friday frighted gave give goats gone ground hands head hill Honour of Scotland hundredweight iron crows island killed kind knew labour land Lisbon lived looked manner master mind miserable moidores morning never night observed occasion pieces pieces of eight plantation poor powder present prisoners Providence raft rain reason resolved rest Robin Crusoe Robinson Crusoe rock sail savages saved Selkirk ship shore shot side soon Spaniard Stoke Newington storm story strong surprised things thought tide told took tree venture voyage wild wind wood word wreck Xury
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Página 1 - I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
Página 173 - I had done praying I took up my Bible, and opening it to read, the first words that presented to me were, "Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and He shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.
Página 170 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree; looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man.
Página 162 - It would have made a stoick smile to have seen » me and my little family sit down to dinner; there was my majesty the prince and lord of the whole island; I had the lives of all my subjects at my absolute command. I could hang, draw, give liberty, and take it away, and no rebels among all my subjects.
Página 57 - I saw good reason to believe, uninhabited, except by wild beasts, of whom, however, I saw none ; yet I saw abundance of fowls, but knew not their kinds ; neither, when I killed them, could I tell what was fit for food, and what not. At my coming...
Página 72 - I am cast upon a horrible desolate island, void of all hope of recovery. I am singled out and separated, as it were, from all the world to be miserable.
Página 168 - It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.
Página xlix - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner; Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.
Página xviii - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Página 75 - I had everything so ready at my hand, that it was a great pleasure to me to see all my goods in such order, and especially to find my stock of all necessaries so great. And now it was that I began to keep a journal of every day's employment ; for indeed at first I was in too much...