The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight & 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 Wherin All the Men Perished But Himself. With an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Delivered by Pyrates. Written by Himself...

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John Stockdale, 1790
 

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Page 190 - I went up to a rising ground to look farther; I went up the shore, and down the shore, but it was all one; I could see no other impression but that one. I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to observe if it might not be my fancy; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the very print of a foot, toes, heel, and every part of a foot; how it came thither I knew not, nor could in the least imagine.
Page 193 - ... (for so I think I called it ever after this), I fled into it like one pursued ; whether I went over by the ladder, as first...
Page 293 - It was remarkable, too, we had but three subjects, and they were of three different religions. My man Friday was a Protestant, his father was a Pagan and a cannibal, and the Spaniard was a Papist. However, I allowed liberty of conscience throughout my dominions.
Page 84 - I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it, especially if I had had tools...
Page 250 - 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.
Page 194 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 250 - ... not very easy to describe. His face was round and plump; his nose small, not flat like the Negroes', a very good mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well set, and white as ivory.
Page 293 - Secondly, my people were perfectly subjected. I was absolute lord and lawgiver; they all owed their lives to me, and were ready to lay down their lives, if there had been occasion of it, for me.
Page 70 - E'en remain where thou art and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving.

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