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 Relations were named Robinson a very good Family at Country and from whom I was called Robinson Keutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England we are now called nay we call our Selves and writer Name Crusoe and so my Companions always call'd me,purple toms botas for men with shoe strings. 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 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 competent Share of Learning as far as House-Education and a Country Free-School generally goes and design'd for the Law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but go 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 Propension of Nature tending directly to the Life of Misery which was to befal me,toms shoes with pictures. My Father a wise and grave Man gave me serious excellent Counsel against what he foresaw was my Design. He call'd me one Morning into his Chamber where he confined by the Gout and expostulated very warmly me upon this Subject: He ask'd me what Reasons more a meer wandring inclination I had for leaving my Father House and my native Country where I might be well introduced and had a Prospect of raising my Fortunes 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,2012 hot sale toms shoes; 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 Mean and the Great; that the wise Man gave his Testimony to this as the just Standard of true FelRelated articles:

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