Robinson Crusoe

ROBINSON CRUSOE31amazement, when I thought I heard him pronounce these dreadful words,Unhappy wretch! seeing all these things have not brought thee to repentance,thou shalt immediately die. In pronouncing this dreadful sentence, I thought hewent to kill me with the spear that was in his hand.Any body may think it impossible for me to express the horrors of my mindat this vision: and even when I awaked, this very dream made a deepimpression upon my mind. The little divine knowledge I had, I received frommy father’s instructions, and that was worn out by an uninterrupted series ofsea-faring impiety for eight years space. Except what sickness forced from me,I do not remember I had one thought of lifting up my heart towards God, butrather had a certain stupidity of soul, not having the least sense or fear of theOmnipotent Being when in distress, nor of gratitude to him for hisdeliverances. Nay, when I was on the desperate expedition on the desertAfrican shore, I cannot remember I had one thought of what would become ofme, or to beg his consolation and assistance in my sufferings and distress.When the Portugal captain took me up and honorably used me, nay, farther,when I was even delivered from drowning by escaping to this island, I neverlooked upon it as a judgment, but only said I was an unfortunate dog, andthat’s all. Indeed some secret transports of soul I had, which was not throughgrace but only a common flight of joy, that I was yet alive, when mycompanions were all drowned, and no other joy could I conceive but what iscommon with the sailors over a bowl of punch, after they have escaped thegreatest dangers.The likelihood of wanting for neither food nor conveniences, might havecalled upon me for a thankful acknowledgment to Providence. Indeed, thegrowth of my corn touched with some sense, but that soon wore off again. Theterrible earthquake pointed to me, as it were, the fi...