item: #1 of 6
          id: 11239
      author: Defoe, Daniel
       title: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes
        date: None
       words: 124767
      flesch: 53
     summary: 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 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 nor 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 exposed 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 vicious living, luxury, and extravagances, on one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean and 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 calculated for all kind of virtues and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embarrassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to the life of slavery for daily bread, or harassed with perplexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace, and the body of rest; not enraged with the passion of envy, or secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sensibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter, feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly.
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: 1146
      author: Fielding, Henry
       title: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
        date: None
       words: 45576
      flesch: 49
     summary: What hath puzzled our physicians, and prevented them from setting this matter in the clearest light, is possibly one simple mistake, arising from a very excusable ignorance; that the passions of men are capable of swallowing food as well as their appetites; that the former, in feeding, resemble the state of those animals who chew the cud; and therefore, such men, in some sense, may be said to prey on themselves, and as it were to devour their own entrails. The vanity of knowing more than other men is, perhaps, besides hunger, the only inducement to writing, at least to publishing, at all.
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: 11866
      author: Defoe, Daniel
       title: The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)
        date: None
       words: 120519
      flesch: 66
     summary: No be good mans, no cry O to him? _A._ No, my dear, but God has spoken formerly to good men from heaven; and by divine revelation they have written all his laws down in a book.
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: 12623
      author: Defoe, Daniel
       title: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)
        date: None
       words: 236122
      flesch: 48
     summary: But no makee kill you yet; then he tell you, may be, that he no makee you kill, so you make de bargain with him, you do bad ting, he no be angry at you, when he be angry at other mans? No, indeed, my sins are all presumptions upon his goodness; and he would be infinitely just if he destroyed me as he has done other men.
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: 43520
      author: Fielding, Henry
       title: The Works of Henry Fielding, vol. 11 A Journey From This World to the Next; and A Voyage to Lisbon
        date: None
       words: 92234
      flesch: 57
     summary: It was impossible not to ask who or what the wretched spirit was whom they treated in this barbarous manner; when, to our great surprize, we were informed that it was a king: we were likewise told that this manner of behaviour was usual among the spirits to those who drew the lots of emperors, kings, and other great men, not from envy or anger, but mere derision and contempt of earthly grandeur; that nothing was more common than for those who had drawn these great prizes (as to us they seemed) to exchange them with taylors and coblers; and that Alexander the Great and Diogenes had formerly done so; he that was afterwards Diogenes having originally fallen on the lot of Alexander. I was however soon cured of this opinion; for immediately after supper our discourse turned on the injustice which the generality of the world were guilty of in their conduct to great men, expecting that they should reward their private merit, without ever endeavouring to apply it to their use.
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: 44480
      author: Yule, Adam
       title: The Loss of the Australia A narrative of the loss of the brig Australia by fire on her voyage from Leith to Sydney
        date: None
       words: 16703
      flesch: 66
     summary: They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. FOR THIS SHALL EVERY ONE THAT IS GODLY PRAY UNTO THEE IN A TIME WHEN THOU MAYEST BE FOUND; SURELY IN THE FLOODS OF GREAT WATERS THEY SHALL NOT COME NIGH UNTO HIM.
    keywords: boat; cape; company; course; day; god; good; hope; land; lord; morning; night; passengers; people; sea; skiff; time; water
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