the further adventures of robinson crusoe

Yet all these things had no effect upon me, or at least not enough to resist the strong inclination I had to go abroad again, which hung about me like a chronic distemper. Nay, farther, the common motive of foreign adventures was taken away in me, for I had no fortune to make I had nothing to seek: if I had gained ten thousand pounds I had been no richer for I had already sufficient for me, and for those I had to leave it to and what I had was visibly increasing for, having no great family, I could not spend the income of what I had unless I would set up for an expensive way of living, such as a great family, servants, equipage, gaiety, and the like, which were things I had no notion of, or inclination to so that I had nothing, indeed, to do but to sit still, and fully enjoy what I had got, and see it increase daily upon my hands. Any one would think that after thirty-five years’ affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went through before, and after near seven years of peace and enjoyment in the fulness of all things grown old, and when, if ever, it might be allowed me to have had experience of every state of middle life, and to know which was most adapted to make a man completely happy I say, after all this, any one would have thought that the native propensity to rambling which I gave an account of in my first setting out in the world to have been so predominant in my thoughts, should be worn out, and I might, at sixty one years of age, have been a little inclined to stay at home, and have done venturing life and fortune any more. “That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,” was never more verified than in the story of my Life. That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz.

THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE

The further adventures of robinson crusoe