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  1. May 2016
    1. Works

      Some subsequent editions misread this word as the intransitive verb "to work," printing the line as "I set my self to enlarge my Cave, and work farther into the Earth." However, the first edition treats it as a noun.

  2. Mar 2016
    1. tho’ had the Powder took fire, I had never known who had hurt me.

      Had the explosive gunpowder caught fire from the lightning, Crusoe would ironically not have survived the explosion to have suffered harm at the hands of man or beast.

  3. Feb 2016
    1. dispatch’d

      That such books as this will be read quickly, so that the truth of the narrative has no bearing on its value as entertainment or instruction.

      (See Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe Ed. Michael Shinagel. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978), p. 3, footnote 1)

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