The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1868 |
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... believe the woman whom I was taught to call mother , I was a little boy , of about two years old , very well dressed , had a nursery - maid to attend me , who took me out on a fine summer's evening into the fields towards Islington , as ...
... believe the woman whom I was taught to call mother , I was a little boy , of about two years old , very well dressed , had a nursery - maid to attend me , who took me out on a fine summer's evening into the fields towards Islington , as ...
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... believe I was frequently removed from one town to another , perhaps as the parishes disputed my supposed mother's last settlement . Whether I was so shifted by passes , or otherwise , I know not ; but the town where I was last kept ...
... believe I was frequently removed from one town to another , perhaps as the parishes disputed my supposed mother's last settlement . Whether I was so shifted by passes , or otherwise , I know not ; but the town where I was last kept ...
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... believe I should otherwise have been . But as to my being one of them that was to kill the captain , that I was wronged in , for I was not the person ; but it was really one of them that were pardoned , he having the good luck not to ...
... believe I should otherwise have been . But as to my being one of them that was to kill the captain , that I was wronged in , for I was not the person ; but it was really one of them that were pardoned , he having the good luck not to ...
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... believe we were gone with the ship , we would go and place ourselves , if possible , where there were no inhabitants to be seen , and so live as we could , or perhaps watch for a ship that might be driven upon the coast , as we were ...
... believe we were gone with the ship , we would go and place ourselves , if possible , where there were no inhabitants to be seen , and so live as we could , or perhaps watch for a ship that might be driven upon the coast , as we were ...
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... every way to keep it out ; and it was the first invention , I believe , of its kind , for such an use . But necessity is a spur to ingenuity , and the mother of invention . It wanted but a little consultation to resolve now upon.
... every way to keep it out ; and it was the first invention , I believe , of its kind , for such an use . But necessity is a spur to ingenuity , and the mother of invention . It wanted but a little consultation to resolve now upon.
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