DANIEL DEFOE
ROBINSON CRUSOE: PASSAGE No 2
created by Savino Carrella

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My father, who was very , had given me a competent of learning, as far as house-education and a country school generally goes, and designed me the law, but I would be satisfied nothing but going to sea; and my to this led me so strongly against the , nay, the commands, of my father, and against the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and friends, that there seemed to be something in that propension of nature tending to the life of misery which was to befall .
My father, a wise and man, gave me serious and excellent counsel what he foresaw was my design. He me one morning into his chamber, where he confined by the gout, and expostulated very with me upon this subject. He asked me reasons more than a mere inclination I had for leaving my father’s house and my country, where I might be well , and had a prospect of raising my fortunes application and industry, with a life of and pleasure.