I Am Giving An Account Of What

Actions Receive Their Tincture From The Times, And As They Change Are Virtues Made Or Crimes

Great Families Of Yesterday We Show, And Lords, Whose Parents Were The Lord Knows Who.

Alas The Church Of England! What With Popery On One Hand, And Schismatics On The Other, How Has She Been Crucified Between Two Thieves!

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, Whose Relations Were Named Robinson, A Very Good Family In That Country, And From Whom I Was Called Robinson Kreutznaer; 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 Call'd Me.

Justice Is Always Violence To The Party Offending, For Every Man Is Innocent In His Own Eyes.