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20300 | {
"en": "Upon the whole, I found that the forty bushels of barley and rice were much more than I could consume in a year; so I resolved to sow just the same quantity every year that I sowed the last, in hopes that such a quantity would fully provide me with bread, &c.",
"fr": "Somme toute, je reconnus que quarante ... |
20301 | {
"en": "All the while these things were doing, you may be sure my thoughts ran many times upon the prospect of land which I had seen from the other side of the island; and I was not without secret wishes that I were on shore there, fancying that, seeing the mainland, and an inhabited country, I might find some way o... |
20302 | {
"en": "But all this while I made no allowance for the dangers of such an undertaking, and how I might fall into the hands of savages, and perhaps such as I might have reason to think far worse than the lions and tigers of Africa: that if I once came in their power, I should run a hazard of more than a thousand to o... |
20303 | {
"en": "Then, supposing they were not cannibals, yet they might kill me, as many Europeans who had fallen into their hands had been served, even when they had been ten or twenty together—much more I, that was but one, and could make little or no defence; all these things, I say, which I ought to have considered well... |
20304 | {
"en": "Now I wished for my boy Xury, and the long-boat with shoulder-of-mutton sail, with which I sailed above a thousand miles on the coast of Africa; but this was in vain: then I thought I would go and look at our ship’s boat, which, as I have said, was blown up upon the shore a great way, in the storm, when we w... |
20305 | {
"en": "She lay almost where she did at first, but not quite; and was turned, by the force of the waves and the winds, almost bottom upward, against a high ridge of beachy, rough sand, but no water about her.",
"fr": "Elle se trouvait encore à peu de chose près dans la même situation: renversée par la force des va... |
20306 | {
"en": "If I had had hands to have refitted her, and to have launched her into the water, the boat would have done well enough, and I might have gone back into the Brazils with her easily enough; but I might have foreseen that I could no more turn her and set her upright upon her bottom than I could remove the islan... |
20307 | {
"en": "I spared no pains, indeed, in this piece of fruitless toil, and spent, I think, three or four weeks about it; at last finding it impossible to heave it up with my little strength, I fell to digging away the sand, to undermine it, and so to make it fall down, setting pieces of wood to thrust and guide it righ... |
20308 | {
"en": "But when I had done this, I was unable to stir it up again, or to get under it, much less to move it forward towards the water; so I was forced to give it over; and yet, though I gave over the hopes of the boat, my desire to venture over for the main increased, rather than decreased, as the means for it seem... |
20309 | {
"en": "This at length put me upon thinking whether it was not possible to make myself a canoe, or periagua, such as the natives of those climates make, even without tools, or, as I might say, without hands, of the trunk of a great tree.",
"fr": "Cela m'amena enfin à penser s'il ne serait pas possible de me constr... |
20310 | {
"en": "This I not only thought possible, but easy, and pleased myself extremely with the thoughts of making it, and with my having much more convenience for it than any of the negroes or Indians; but not at all considering the particular inconveniences which I lay under more than the Indians did—viz. want of hands ... |
20311 | {
"en": "One would have thought I could not have had the least reflection upon my mind of my circumstances while I was making this boat, but I should have immediately thought how I should get it into the sea; but my thoughts were so intent upon my voyage over the sea in it, that I never once considered how I should g... |
20312 | {
"en": "I went to work upon this boat the most like a fool that ever man did who had any of his senses awake.",
"fr": "J'entrepris ce bateau plus follement que ne fit jamais homme ayant ses sens éveillés."
} |
20313 | {
"en": "I pleased myself with the design, without determining whether I was ever able to undertake it; not but that the difficulty of launching my boat came often into my head; but I put a stop to my inquiries into it by this foolish answer which I gave myself—“Let me first make it; I warrant I will find some way or... |
20314 | {
"en": "This was a most preposterous method; but the eagerness of my fancy prevailed, and to work I went.",
"fr": "C'était bien la plus absurde méthode; mais mon idée opiniâtre prévalait: je me mis à l'œuvre et j'abattis un cèdre."
} |
20315 | {
"en": "I felled a cedar-tree, and I question much whether Solomon ever had such a one for the building of the Temple of Jerusalem; it was five feet ten inches diameter at the lower part next the stump, and four feet eleven inches diameter at the end of twenty-two feet; after which it lessened for a while, and then ... |
20316 | {
"en": "It was not without infinite labour that I felled this tree; I was twenty days hacking and hewing at it at the bottom; I was fourteen more getting the branches and limbs and the vast spreading head cut off, which I hacked and hewed through with axe and hatchet, and inexpressible labour; after this, it cost me... |
20317 | {
"en": "It cost me near three months more to clear the inside, and work it out so as to make an exact boat of it; this I did, indeed, without fire, by mere mallet and chisel, and by the dint of hard labour, till I had brought it to be a very handsome periagua, and big enough to have carried six-and-twenty men, and c... |
20318 | {
"en": "When I had gone through this work I was extremely delighted with it. The boat was really much bigger than ever I saw a canoe or periagua, that was made of one tree, in my life.",
"fr": "Quand j'eus achevé cet ouvrage j'en ressentis une joie extrême: au fait, c'était la plus grande pirogue d'une seule pièce... |
20319 | {
"en": "Many a weary stroke it had cost, you may be sure; and had I gotten it into the water, I make no question, but I should have begun the maddest voyage, and the most unlikely to be performed, that ever was undertaken.",
"fr": "Il ne me restait plus qu'à la lancer à la mer; et, si j'y fusse parvenu, je ne fais... |
20320 | {
"en": "But all my devices to get it into the water failed me; though they cost me infinite labour too.",
"fr": "Mais touts mes expédients pour l'amener jusqu'à l'eau avortèrent, bien qu'ils m'eussent aussi coûté un travail infini, et qu'elle ne fût éloignée de la mer que de cent verges tout au plus. Comme premier... |
20321 | {
"en": "It lay about one hundred yards from the water, and not more; but the first inconvenience was, it was up hill towards the creek.",
"fr": "Nonobstant, pour aplanir cet obstacle, je résolus de creuser la surface du terrain en pente douce. Je me mis donc à l'œuvre."
} |
20322 | {
"en": "Well, to take away this discouragement, I resolved to dig into the surface of the earth, and so make a declivity: this I began, and it cost me a prodigious deal of pains (but who grudge pains who have their deliverance in view?); but when this was worked through, and this difficulty managed, it was still muc... |
20323 | {
"en": "Then I measured the distance of ground, and resolved to cut a dock or canal, to bring the water up to the canoe, seeing I could not bring the canoe down to the water.",
"fr": "Alors je mesurai la longueur du terrain, et je me déterminai à ouvrir une darce ou canal pour amener la mer jusqu'à la pirogue, pui... |
20324 | {
"en": "Well, I began this work; and when I began to enter upon it, and calculate how deep it was to be dug, how broad, how the stuff was to be thrown out, I found that, by the number of hands I had, being none but my own, it must have been ten or twelve years before I could have gone through with it; for the shore ... |
20325 | {
"en": "This grieved me heartily; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.",
"fr": "J'en fus vraiment navré, et je compris alors, mais trop tard, quelle folie c'était d'entreprendre un ouvrage avan... |
20326 | {
"en": "In the middle of this work I finished my fourth year in this place, and kept my anniversary with the same devotion, and with as much comfort as ever before; for, by a constant study and serious application to the Word of God, and by the assistance of His grace, I gained a different knowledge from what I had ... |
20327 | {
"en": "I looked now upon the world as a thing remote, which I had nothing to do with, no expectations from, and, indeed, no desires about: in a word, I had nothing indeed to do with it, nor was ever likely to have, so I thought it looked, as we may perhaps look upon it hereafter—viz. as a place I had lived in, but ... |
20328 | {
"en": "In the first place, I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here; I had neither the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eye, nor the pride of life.",
"fr": "Là j'étais éloigné de la perversité du monde: je n'avais ni concupiscence de la chair, ni concupiscence des yeux, ni faste de la vie."
} |
20329 | {
"en": "I had nothing to covet, for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying; I was lord of the whole manor; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of: there were no rivals; I had no competitor, none to dispute sovereignty or command with me: I might h... |
20330 | {
"en": "I had tortoise or turtle enough, but now and then one was as much as I could put to any use: I had timber enough to have built a fleet of ships; and I had grapes enough to have made wine, or to have cured into raisins, to have loaded that fleet when it had been built.",
"fr": "J'avais à foison des chélones... |
20331 | {
"en": "But all I could make use of was all that was valuable: I had enough to eat and supply my wants, and what was all the rest to me?",
"fr": "J'avais de quoi manger et de quoi subvenir à mes besoins, que m'importait tout le reste! Si j'avais tué du gibier au-delà, de ma consommation, il m'aurait fallu l'abando... |
20332 | {
"en": "If I killed more flesh than I could eat, the dog must eat it, or vermin; if I sowed more corn than I could eat, it must be spoiled; the trees that I cut down were lying to rot on the ground; I could make no more use of them but for fuel, and that I had no occasion for but to dress my food.",
"fr": "Si j'av... |
20333 | {
"en": "In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me, upon just reflection, that all the good things of this world are no farther good to us than they are for our use; and that, whatever we may heap up to give others, we enjoy just as much as we can use, and no more.",
"fr": "En un mot la nature e... |
20334 | {
"en": "The most covetous, griping miser in the world would have been cured of the vice of covetousness if he had been in my case; for I possessed infinitely more than I knew what to do with.",
"fr": "Le ladre le plus rapace de ce monde aurait été guéri de son vice de convoitise, s'il se fût trouvé à ma place; car... |
20335 | {
"en": "I had no room for desire, except it was of things which I had not, and they were but trifles, though, indeed, of great use to me.",
"fr": "Je n'avais rien à désirer si ce n'est quelques babioles qui me manquaient et qui pourtant m'auraient été d'une grande utilité."
} |
20336 | {
"en": "I had, as I hinted before, a parcel of money, as well gold as silver, about thirty-six pounds sterling. Alas! there the sorry, useless stuff lay; I had no more manner of business for it; and often thought with myself that I would have given a handful of it for a gross of tobacco-pipes; or for a hand-mill to ... |
20337 | {
"en": "As it was, I had not the least advantage by it or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the damp of the cave in the wet seasons; and if I had had the drawer full of diamonds, it had been the same case—they had been of no manner of value to me, because of no use.",
"fr": "En ma... |
20338 | {
"en": "I had now brought my state of life to be much easier in itself than it was at first, and much easier to my mind, as well as to my body.",
"fr": "J'avais alors amené mon état de vie à être en soi beaucoup plus heureux qu'il ne l'avait été premièrement, et beaucoup plus heureux pour mon esprit et pour mon co... |
20339 | {
"en": "I frequently sat down to meat with thankfulness, and admired the hand of God’s providence, which had thus spread my table in the wilderness.",
"fr": "Souvent je m'asseyais pour mon repas avec reconnaissance, et j'admirais la main de la divine Providence qui m'avait ainsi dressé une table dans le désert. Je... |
20340 | {
"en": "I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted; and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who... |
20341 | {
"en": "All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.",
"fr": "Touts nos tourments sur ce qui nous manque me semblent procéder du défaut de gratitude pour ce que nous avons."
} |
20342 | {
"en": "Another reflection was of great use to me, and doubtless would be so to any one that should fall into such distress as mine was; and this was, to compare my present condition with what I at first expected it would be; nay, with what it would certainly have been, if the good providence of God had not wonderfu... |
20343 | {
"en": "I spent whole hours, I may say whole days, in representing to myself, in the most lively colours, how I must have acted if I had got nothing out of the ship. How I could not have so much as got any food, except fish and turtles; and that, as it was long before I found any of them, I must have perished first;... |
20344 | {
"en": "These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, “Is any affliction like mine?” Let them c... |
20345 | {
"en": "I had another reflection, which assisted me also to comfort my mind with hopes; and this was comparing my present situation with what I had deserved, and had therefore reason to expect from the hand of Providence.",
"fr": "Je faisais encore une autre réflexion qui m'aidait aussi à repaître mon âme d'espéra... |
20346 | {
"en": "I had lived a dreadful life, perfectly destitute of the knowledge and fear of God.",
"fr": "J'avais mené une vie mauvaise, entièrement dépouillée de toute connaissance et de toute crainte de Dieu."
} |
20347 | {
"en": "I had been well instructed by father and mother; neither had they been wanting to me in their early endeavours to infuse a religious awe of God into my mind, a sense of my duty, and what the nature and end of my being required of me. But, alas! falling early into the seafaring life, which of all lives is the... |
20348 | {
"en": "So void was I of everything that was good, or the least sense of what I was, or was to be, that, in the greatest deliverances I enjoyed—such as my escape from Sallee; my being taken up by the Portuguese master of the ship; my being planted so well in the Brazils; my receiving the cargo from England, and the ... |
20349 | {
"en": "I had terrible reflections upon my mind for many months, as I have already observed, on account of my wicked and hardened life past; and when I looked about me, and considered what particular providences had attended me since my coming into this place, and how God had dealt bountifully with me—had not only p... |
20350 | {
"en": "With these reflections I worked my mind up, not only to a resignation to the will of God in the present disposition of my circumstances, but even to a sincere thankfulness for my condition; and that I, who was yet a living man, ought not to complain, seeing I had not the due punishment of my sins; that I enj... |
20351 | {
"en": "In a word, as my life was a life of sorrow one way, so it was a life of mercy another; and I wanted nothing to make it a life of comfort but to be able to make my sense of God’s goodness to me, and care over me in this condition, be my daily consolation; and after I did make a just improvement on these thing... |
20352 | {
"en": "I had now been here so long that many things which I had brought on shore for my help were either quite gone, or very much wasted and near spent.",
"fr": "Il y avait déjà si long-temps que j'étais dans l'île, que bien des choses que j'y avais apportées pour mon soulagement étaient ou entièrement finies ou ... |
20353 | {
"en": "My ink, as I observed, had been gone some time, all but a very little, which I eked out with water, a little and a little, till it was so pale, it scarce left any appearance of black upon the paper.",
"fr": "Mon encre, comme je l'ai dit plus haut, tirait à sa fin depuis quelque temps, il ne m'en restait qu... |
20354 | {
"en": "As long as it lasted I made use of it to minute down the days of the month on which any remarkable thing happened to me; and first, by casting up times past, I remembered that there was a strange concurrence of days in the various providences which befell me, and which, if I had been superstitiously inclined... |
20355 | {
"en": "First, I had observed that the same day that I broke away from my father and friends and ran away to Hull, in order to go to sea, the same day afterwards I was taken by the Sallee man-of-war, and made a slave; the same day of the year that I escaped out of the wreck of that ship in Yarmouth Roads, that same ... |
20356 | {
"en": "The next thing to my ink being wasted was that of my bread—I mean the biscuit which I brought out of the ship; this I had husbanded to the last degree, allowing myself but one cake of bread a-day for above a year; and yet I was quite without bread for near a year before I got any corn of my own, and great re... |
20357 | {
"en": "My clothes, too, began to decay; as to linen, I had had none a good while, except some chequered shirts which I found in the chests of the other seamen, and which I carefully preserved; because many times I could bear no other clothes on but a shirt; and it was a very great help to me that I had, among all t... |
20358 | {
"en": "There were also, indeed, several thick watch-coats of the seamen’s which were left, but they were too hot to wear; and though it is true that the weather was so violently hot that there was no need of clothes, yet I could not go quite naked—no, though I had been inclined to it, which I was not—nor could I ab... |
20359 | {
"en": "The reason why I could not go naked was, I could not bear the heat of the sun so well when quite naked as with some clothes on; nay, the very heat frequently blistered my skin: whereas, with a shirt on, the air itself made some motion, and whistling under the shirt, was twofold cooler than without it.",
"f... |
20360 | {
"en": "No more could I ever bring myself to go out in the heat of the sun without a cap or a hat; the heat of the sun, beating with such violence as it does in that place, would give me the headache presently, by darting so directly on my head, without a cap or hat on, so that I could not bear it; whereas, if I put... |
20361 | {
"en": "Upon these views I began to consider about putting the few rags I had, which I called clothes, into some order; I had worn out all the waistcoats I had, and my business was now to try if I could not make jackets out of the great watch-coats which I had by me, and with such other materials as I had; so I set ... |
20362 | {
"en": "However, I made shift to make two or three new waistcoats, which I hoped would serve me a great while: as for breeches or drawers, I made but a very sorry shift indeed till afterwards.",
"fr": "Je me mis donc à faire le métier de tailleur, ou plutôt de ravaudeur, car je faisais de la piteuse besogne. Néanm... |
20363 | {
"en": "I have mentioned that I saved the skins of all the creatures that I killed, I mean four-footed ones, and I had them hung up, stretched out with sticks in the sun, by which means some of them were so dry and hard that they were fit for little, but others were very useful.",
"fr": "J'ai noté que je conservai... |
20364 | {
"en": "The first thing I made of these was a great cap for my head, with the hair on the outside, to shoot off the rain; and this I performed so well, that after I made me a suit of clothes wholly of these skins—that is to say, a waistcoat, and breeches open at the knees, and both loose, for they were rather wantin... |
20365 | {
"en": "I must not omit to acknowledge that they were wretchedly made; for if I was a bad carpenter, I was a worse tailor.",
"fr": "Je dois avouer qu'ils étaient très-méchamment faits; si j'étais mauvais charpentier, j'étais encore plus mauvais tailleur."
} |
20366 | {
"en": "However, they were such as I made very good shift with, and when I was out, if it happened to rain, the hair of my waistcoat and cap being outermost, I was kept very dry.",
"fr": "Néanmoins ils me furent d'un fort bon usage; et quand j'étais en course, s'il venait à pleuvoir, le poil de ma casaque et de mo... |
20367 | {
"en": "After this, I spent a great deal of time and pains to make an umbrella; I was, indeed, in great want of one, and had a great mind to make one; I had seen them made in the Brazils, where they are very useful in the great heats there, and I felt the heats every jot as great here, and greater too, being nearer ... |
20368 | {
"en": "I took a world of pains with it, and was a great while before I could make anything likely to hold: nay, after I had thought I had hit the way, I spoiled two or three before I made one to my mind: but at last I made one that answered indifferently well: the main difficulty I found was to make it let down.",
... |
20369 | {
"en": "I could make it spread, but if it did not let down too, and draw in, it was not portable for me any way but just over my head, which would not do.",
"fr": "Enfin j'en façonnai un qui y répondait assez bien. La principale difficulté fut de le rendre fermant; car si j'eusse pu l'étendre et n'eusse pu le ploy... |
20370 | {
"en": "However, at last, as I said, I made one to answer, and covered it with skins, the hair upwards, so that it cast off the rain like a pent-house, and kept off the sun so effectually, that I could walk out in the hottest of the weather with greater advantage than I could before in the coolest, and when I had no... |
20371 | {
"en": "Thus I lived mighty comfortably, my mind being entirely composed by resigning myself to the will of God, and throwing myself wholly upon the disposal of His providence.",
"fr": "Je vivais ainsi très-confortablement; mon esprit s'était calmé en se résignant à la volonté de Dieu, et je m'abandonnais entièrem... |
20372 | {
"en": "This made my life better than sociable, for when I began to regret the want of conversation I would ask myself, whether thus conversing mutually with my own thoughts, and (as I hope I may say) with even God Himself, by ejaculations, was not better than the utmost enjoyment of human society in the world?",
... |
20373 | {
"en": "I cannot say that after this, for five years, any extraordinary thing happened to me, but I lived on in the same course, in the same posture and place, as before; the chief things I was employed in, besides my yearly labour of planting my barley and rice, and curing my raisins, of both which I always kept up... |
20374 | {
"en": "As for the first, which was so vastly big, for I made it without considering beforehand, as I ought to have done, how I should be able to launch it, so, never being able to bring it into the water, or bring the water to it, I was obliged to let it lie where it was as a memorandum to teach me to be wiser the ... |
20375 | {
"en": "However, though my little periagua was finished, yet the size of it was not at all answerable to the design which I had in view when I made the first; I mean of venturing over to the _terra firma_, where it was above forty miles broad; accordingly, the smallness of my boat assisted to put an end to that desi... |
20376 | {
"en": "As I had a boat, my next design was to make a cruise round the island; for as I had been on the other side in one place, crossing, as I have already described it, over the land, so the discoveries I made in that little journey made me very eager to see other parts of the coast; and now I had a boat, I though... |
20377 | {
"en": "For this purpose, that I might do everything with discretion and consideration, I fitted up a little mast in my boat, and made a sail too out of some of the pieces of the ship’s sails which lay in store, and of which I had a great stock by me.",
"fr": "Dans ce dessein, et pour que je pusse opérer plus sûre... |
20378 | {
"en": "Having fitted my mast and sail, and tried the boat, I found she would sail very well; then I made little lockers or boxes at each end of my boat, to put provisions, necessaries, ammunition, &c., into, to be kept dry, either from rain or the spray of the sea; and a little, long, hollow place I cut in the insi... |
20379 | {
"en": "I fixed my umbrella also in the step at the stern, like a mast, to stand over my head, and keep the heat of the sun off me, like an awning; and thus I every now and then took a little voyage upon the sea, but never went far out, nor far from the little creek.",
"fr": "À la poupe je plaçais mon parasol, fic... |
20380 | {
"en": "At last, being eager to view the circumference of my little kingdom, I resolved upon my cruise; and accordingly I victualled my ship for the voyage, putting in two dozen of loaves (cakes I should call them) of barley-bread, an earthen pot full of parched rice (a food I ate a good deal of), a little bottle of... |
20381 | {
"en": "It was the 6th of November, in the sixth year of my reign—or my captivity, which you please—that I set out on this voyage, and I found it much longer than I expected; for though the island itself was not very large, yet when I came to the east side of it, I found a great ledge of rocks lie out about two leag... |
20382 | {
"en": "When I first discovered them, I was going to give over my enterprise, and come back again, not knowing how far it might oblige me to go out to sea; and above all, doubting how I should get back again: so I came to an anchor; for I had made a kind of an anchor with a piece of a broken grappling which I got ou... |
20383 | {
"en": "Having secured my boat, I took my gun and went on shore, climbing up a hill, which seemed to overlook that point where I saw the full extent of it, and resolved to venture.",
"fr": "Là j'en découvris toute l'étendue, et je résolus de m'aventurer. En examinant la mer du haut de cette éminence, j'apperçus un... |
20384 | {
"en": "In my viewing the sea from that hill where I stood, I perceived a strong, and indeed a most furious current, which ran to the east, and even came close to the point; and I took the more notice of it because I saw there might be some danger that when I came into it I might be carried out to sea by the strengt... |
20385 | {
"en": "I lay here, however, two days, because the wind blowing pretty fresh at ESE., and that being just contrary to the current, made a great breach of the sea upon the point: so that it was not safe for me to keep too close to the shore for the breach, nor to go too far off, because of the stream.",
"fr": "Je s... |
20386 | {
"en": "The third day, in the morning, the wind having abated overnight, the sea was calm, and I ventured: but I am a warning to all rash and ignorant pilots; for no sooner was I come to the point, when I was not even my boat’s length from the shore, but I found myself in a great depth of water, and a current like t... |
20387 | {
"en": "There was no wind stirring to help me, and all I could do with my paddles signified nothing: and now I began to give myself over for lost; for as the current was on both sides of the island, I knew in a few leagues distance they must join again, and then I was irrecoverably gone; nor did I see any possibilit... |
20388 | {
"en": "I had, indeed, found a tortoise on the shore, as big almost as I could lift, and had tossed it into the boat; and I had a great jar of fresh water, that is to say, one of my earthen pots; but what was all this to being driven into the vast ocean, where, to be sure, there was no shore, no mainland or island, ... |
20389 | {
"en": "And now I saw how easy it was for the providence of God to make even the most miserable condition of mankind worse.",
"fr": "Je compris alors combien il est facile à la providence de Dieu de rendre pire la plus misérable condition de l'humanité."
} |
20390 | {
"en": "Now I looked back upon my desolate, solitary island as the most pleasant place in the world and all the happiness my heart could wish for was to be but there again.",
"fr": "Je me représentais alors mon île solitaire et isolée comme le lieu le plus séduisant du monde, et l'unique bonheur que souhaitât mon ... |
20391 | {
"en": "I stretched out my hands to it, with eager wishes—“O happy desert!” said I, “I shall never see thee more.",
"fr": "Plein de ce brûlant désir, je tendais mes bras vers elle.--«Heureux désert, m'écriais-je, je ne te verrai donc plus! Ô misérable créature!"
} |
20392 | {
"en": "O miserable creature! whither am going?”",
"fr": "Où vas-tu?» Alors je me reprochai mon esprit ingrat."
} |
20393 | {
"en": "Then I reproached myself with my unthankful temper, and that I had repined at my solitary condition; and now what would I give to be on shore there again!",
"fr": "Combien de fois avais-je murmuré contre ma condition solitaire! Que n'aurais-je pas donné à cette heure pour remettre le pied sur la plage?"
} |
20394 | {
"en": "Thus, we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.",
"fr": "Ainsi nous ne voyons jamais le véritable état de notre position avant qu'il n'ait été rendu évident par des fortunes contraires, et nous n'... |
20395 | {
"en": "It is scarcely possible to imagine the consternation I was now in, being driven from my beloved island (for so it appeared to me now to be) into the wide ocean, almost two leagues, and in the utmost despair of ever recovering it again.",
"fr": "Il serait à peine possible d'imaginer quelle était ma constern... |
20396 | {
"en": "However, I worked hard till, indeed, my strength was almost exhausted, and kept my boat as much to the northward, that is, towards the side of the current which the eddy lay on, as possibly I could; when about noon, as the sun passed the meridian, I thought I felt a little breeze of wind in my face, springin... |
20397 | {
"en": "This cheered my heart a little, and especially when, in about half-an-hour more, it blew a pretty gentle gale.",
"fr": "Cela me remit un peu de courage au cœur, surtout quand au bout d'une demi-heure environ il s'éleva au joli frais."
} |
20398 | {
"en": "By this time I had got at a frightful distance from the island, and had the least cloudy or hazy weather intervened, I had been undone another way, too; for I had no compass on board, and should never have known how to have steered towards the island, if I had but once lost sight of it; but the weather conti... |
20399 | {
"en": "Just as I had set my mast and sail, and the boat began to stretch away, I saw even by the clearness of the water some alteration of the current was near; for where the current was so strong the water was foul; but perceiving the water clear, I found the current abate; and presently I found to the east, at ab... |
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