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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...rusoe by Daniel Defoe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication ... ... Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... by planting others it would be very easily covered from the sight, unless narrowly searched for. They desired some dried goat-skins for beds and cove... ...hem stark naked. First, there were three comely fellows, well shaped, with straight limbs, about thirty to thirty-five years of age; and five women, w... ... tree, as if they had known the Englishmen were there. Seeing them come so straight towards them, they resolved to take them in a line as they came: a... .... He owned, indeed, that the savages had made the basket-work for him. The outer 80 The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe circuit was covered as ... ...ut cutting them down first could discover the place, ex- cept the only two narrow entrances where they went in and out could be found, which was not v...

...Excerpt: That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. ?That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,? was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years? affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever w...

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A Journal of the Plague Year

By: Daniel Defoe

...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occu... ...le occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all t... ...ylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...he part where I lived. It was to be observed, indeed, that it did not come straight on towards us; for the city , that is to say , within the walls, w... ...ther encounter I had in the open day also; and this was in going through a narrow passage from Petty France into Bishopsgate Churchyard, by a row of a... ...treet, coming out just by the church door; the other is on the side of the narrow passage where the alms-houses are on the left; and a dwarf-wall with... ... mayors, bailiffs, and other head-officers to appoint within their several limits examiners, searchers, watchmen, keepers, and buriers for the persons... ...e; but with this condi- tion, too, that when he went he was to lock up the outer door of the house and take the key away with him, T o evade this, and...

...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotter...

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