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I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our selves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call’d me.
I had two elder Brothers, one of which was Lieutenant Collonel to an English Regiment of Foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Coll. Lockhart, and was killed at the Battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards: What became of my second Brother I never knew any more than my Father or Mother did know what was become of me.
Being the third Son of the Family, and not bred to any Trade, my Head began to be fill’d very early with rambling Thoughts: My Father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent Share of Learning, as far as House-Education, and a Country Free-School generally goes, and design’d me for the Law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to Sea, and my Inclination to this led me so strongly against the Will, nay the Commands of my Father, and against all the Entreaties and Perswasions of my Mother and other Friends, that there seem’d to be something fatal in that Propension of Nature tending directly to the Life of Misery which was to be-fal me.
My Father, a wise and grave Man, gave me serious and excellent Counsel against what he foresaw was my Design. He call’d me one Morning into his Chamber, where he was confined by the Gout, and expostulated very warmly with me upon this Subject: He ask’d me what Reasons more than a meer wandring Inclination I had for leaving my Father’s House and my native Country, where I might be well introduced, and had a Prospect of raising my Fortunes by Application and Industry, with a Life of Ease and Pleasure. He told me it was for Men of desperate Fortunes on one Hand, or of aspiring, superior Fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon Adventures, to rise by Enterprize, and make themselves famous in Undertakings of a Nature out of the common Road; 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, not exposed to the Miseries and Hardships, the Labour and Sufferings of the mechanick Part of Mankind, and not embarass’d with the Pride, Luxury, Ambition and Envy of the upper Part of Mankind. He told me, I might judge of the Happiness of this State, by this one thing, viz. That this was the State of Life which all other People envied, that Kings have frequently lamented the miserable Consequences of being born to great things, and wish’d they had been placed in the Middle of the two Extremes, between the Mean and the Great; that the wise Man gave his Testimony to this as the just Standard of true Felicity, when he prayed to have neither Poverty or Riches.
He bid me observe it, and I should always find, that the Calamities of Life were shared among the upper and lower Part of Mankind; but that the middle Station had the fewest Disasters, and was not expos’d to so many Vicissitudes as the higher or lower Part of Mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many Distempers and Uneasinesses either of Body or Mind, as those were who, by vi-cious Living, Luxury and Extravagancies on one Hand, or by hard Labour, Want of Necessaries, and mean or insufficient Diet on the other Hand, bring Distempers upon themselves by the natural Consequences of their Way of Living; That the middle Station of Life was calc Robinson Crusoe 魯濱遜漂流記 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式
Robinson Crusoe 魯濱遜漂流記 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 mobi pdf epub txt 電子書 格式 2024
Robinson Crusoe 魯濱遜漂流記 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf 電子書沒有用綫封裝,而是用膠粘的,封皮是紙質的,沒有羊皮般的感覺。難道這就是正宗的美國齣版的書嗎
評分大緻看一下 這本小說難度較低 不需要太強的英語功底便可閱讀
評分沒有用綫封裝,而是用膠粘的,封皮是紙質的,沒有羊皮般的感覺。難道這就是正宗的美國齣版的書嗎
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評分大緻看一下 這本小說難度較低 不需要太強的英語功底便可閱讀
評分評價看到說是翻版的,但是我想說,外國注重環保,都是用這些又輕便又環保的再生紙比較多。就是這個紙張的確有點次,但是很厚一本,很劃算!
評分讀過的第一本長篇小說,英文版當然也必須是第一個讀~
評分是正版書
評分沒有用綫封裝,而是用膠粘的,封皮是紙質的,沒有羊皮般的感覺。難道這就是正宗的美國齣版的書嗎
Robinson Crusoe 魯濱遜漂流記 英文原版 [平裝] mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式下載 2024