The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe . ROBINSON CRUSOE daughter, but not much, and very seldom to any-body else. Yet this man did not live a silent life with respectto himself; he read continually, and wrote downmany excellent things, which deserved to have ap-peared in the world, and was often heard to pray toGod in his solitudes very audibly and with great fer-vency ; but the unjustice which his rash vow — if itwas a vow — of silence was to his family, and thelength he carried it, was so unjustifiable anotherway, that I cannot say his instructions could havemuch force in them.
The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe . ROBINSON CRUSOE daughter, but not much, and very seldom to any-body else. Yet this man did not live a silent life with respectto himself; he read continually, and wrote downmany excellent things, which deserved to have ap-peared in the world, and was often heard to pray toGod in his solitudes very audibly and with great fer-vency ; but the unjustice which his rash vow — if itwas a vow — of silence was to his family, and thelength he carried it, was so unjustifiable anotherway, that I cannot say his instructions could havemuch force in them. Had he been a single man, had he wandered intoa strange country or place where the circumstance ofit had been no scandal, his vow of silence might havebeen as commendable and, as I think, much morethan any of the primitive Christians vows of soli-tude were, whose retreat into the wilderness, and giv-ing themselves up to prayer and contemplation,shunning human society and the like, was so muchesteemed by the primitive fathers; and from whenceour
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