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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/frcursive/txt-en.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/frcursive/txt-en.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..55ed5456110 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/frcursive/txt-en.tex @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ +\hoffset=-1in \advance\hoffset2cm \voffset=\hoffset +\hsize=17cm \vsize=26cm + +\font\tenrm=frcr12 +\font\bold=frcbx12 +\font\calligraphic=frcbx17 + +\tenrm\baselineskip=21.75pt + +\centerline{\calligraphic Robinson Crusoe} +\smallskip\centerline{by Daniel Defoe} + +\bigskip + +\centerline{\bold Chapter One} + +\medskip + +I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, +though 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, whose relations were named Robinson, a good family in that +country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznear; but by the +usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call +ourselves, and write our name, Crusoe, and so my companions always +called me. + +I had two elder brothers, one of which was lieutenant-colonel to an +English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous +Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the +Spaniards; what became of my second brother I never knew, any more than +my father and 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 filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who +was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as +house-education and a country free school generally goes, and designed +me for the law, but I would be satisfied with nothing but going 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 persuasions +of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal +in that propension of nature tending directly to the life of misery +which was to befall me. + +My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel +against what he foresaw was my design. He called me one morning into +his chamber, where he was confined by the gout, and expostulated very +warmly with me upon this subject. He asked me what reasons more than a +mere wandering inclination I had for leaving my father's house and my +native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of +raising my fortunes by 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 enterprise, and make themselves famous in +undertakings of a nature out of the common road; 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 labor and sufferings, of the mechanic part of mankind, +and not embarrassed 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 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 wished they had been +placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the +great; that the wise man gave his testimony to this as the just standard +of true felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches. + +He bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of +life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the +middle station had the fewest disasters and was not exposed to so many +vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind. Nay, they were not +subjected to so many distempers and uneasiness either of body or mind as +those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagancies on one +hand, or by hard labor, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient +diet on the other hand, bring distempers upon themselves by the natural +consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was +calculated for all kind of virtues and all kind of enjoyments; that +peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that +temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable +diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending +the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly +through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embarrassed with the +labors of the hands or of the head, not sold to the life of slavery for +daily bread, or harassed with perplexed circumstances, which rob the +soul of peace, and the body of rest; not enraged with the passion of +envy, or secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but in easy +circumstances sliding gently through the world, and sensibly tasting the +sweets of living, without the bitter, feeling that they are happy, and +learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly. + +After this, he pressed me earnestly, and in the most affectionate +manner, not to play the young man, not to precipitate myself into +miseries which Nature and the station of life I was born in seemed to +have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my +bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavor to enter me fairly +into the station of life which he had been just recommending to me; and +that if I was not very easy and happy in the world it must be my mere +fate or fault that must hinder it, and that he should have nothing to +answer for, having thus discharged his duty in warning me against +measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would +do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he +directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes, as to +give me any encouragement to go away. And to close all, he told me I +had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same +earnest persuasions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, +but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the +army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray +for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this +foolish step, God would not bless me, and I would have leisure hereafter +to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to +assist in my recovery. + +I observed in this last part of his discourse, which was truly +prophetic, though I suppose my father did not know it to be so himself - +I say, I observed the tears run down his face very plentifully, and +especially when he spoke of my brother who was killed; and that when he +spoke of my having leisure to repent, and none to assist me, he was so +moved that he broke off the discourse, and told me his heart was so full +he could say no more to me. + +I was sincerely affected with this discourse, as indeed who could be +otherwise? and I resolved not to think of going abroad any more, but to +settle at home according to my father's desire. But alas! a few days +wore it all off; and, in short, to prevent any of my father's farther +importunities, in a few weeks after I resolved to run quite away from +him. However, I did not act so hastily neither as my first heat of +resolution prompted, but I took my mother, at a time when I thought her +a little pleasanter than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so +entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to +anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had +better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was +now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade, +or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did, I should never serve +out my time, and I should certainly run away from my master before my +time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let +me go but one voyage abroad, if I came home again and did not like it, I +would go no more, and I would promise by a double diligence to recover +that time I had lost. + +This put my mother into a great passion. She told me she knew it would +be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject; that he +knew too well what was my interest to give his consent to anything so +much for my hurt, and that she wondered how I could think of any such +thing after such a discourse as I had had with my father, and such kind +and tender expressions as she knew my father had used to me; and that, +in short, if I would ruin myself there was no help for me; but I might +depend I should never have their consent to it; that for her part, she +should not have so much hand in my destruction, and I should never have +it to say, that my mother was willing when my father was not. + +Though my mother refused to move it to my father, yet, as I have heard +afterwards, she reported all the discourse to him, and that my father, +after showing a great concern at it, said to her with a sigh, "That boy +might be happy if he would stay at home, but if he goes abroad he will +be the miserablest wretch that was ever born: I can give no consent to +it." + +It was not till almost a year after this that I broke loose, though in +the meantime I continued obstinately deaf to all proposals of settling +to business, and frequently expostulating with my father and mother +about their being so positively determined against what they knew my +inclinations prompted me to. But being one day at Hull, where I went +casually, and without any purpose of making an elopement that time; but +I say, being there, and one of my companions being going by sea to +London, in his father's ship, and prompting me to go with them, with the +common allurement of sea-faring men, viz., that it should cost me +nothing for my passage, I consulted neither father nor mother any more, +nor so much as sent them word of it; but leaving them to hear of it as +they might, without asking God's blessing, or my father's, without any +consideration of circumstances or consequences, and in an ill hour, God +knows. + +\bye |