Robinson Crusoe --- Daniel Defoe (1719)

1. .... and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it...2. ... a life of ease and pleasure..3. ..that these things were all either too far above me, or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found by long experience was the best state in the world the most suited to human happiness....4. they had been placed in the middle of the two extremes.5. The words were very apt to my case, and made some impression upon my thoughts at the time of reading them...6. ... as my life was a life of sorrow one way, so it was a life of mercy another....7. Thus my fear banished all my religious hope, all that former confidence in God, which was founded upon such wonderful experience as i had had of His goodness, now vanished, as if He that had fed me by miracles hitherto could not preserve by His power the provision which He had made for me by His goodness.8. I slept unquiet, dreamed always frightful dreams, and often started out of my sleep in the night.9. perturbation10. Thus what is one man's safety is another man's destruction11. ....from some invisible direction, and that i should be wanting to myself if i did not go.12. ...but my unlucky head, that was always to let me know it was born to make my body miserable...13. the pursuers and the pursued14. beckon15. tokens of the triumphant16. a secret joy ran through very part of my soul17. enraged to the highest degree