 | Daniel Defoe - 1810 - 348 pages
...composed judgment to go home, yet I had no power to do it. I know not what to call this, nor will I urge, that it is a secret overruling decree that hurries...against the calm reasonings and persuasions of my most re10 tired thoughts, and against two such visible instructions as I had met with in my first attempt.... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1815 - 602 pages
...in go home, yet I had no power to do it. I know not what to rail this, nor will I urge that it is n secret, over-ruling decree, that hurries us on to...destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes «pen. Certainly, nothing but some such decreed, unavoidable, affliction,... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...composed judgement, to go home, yet I had no power to do it.—I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, over-ruling decree, that...destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our e'yes open. Certainly, nothing but some such decreed unavoidable misery attending,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1820 - 364 pages
...composed judgement, to go home, yet I had no power to do it. — I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, over-ruling decree, that...destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open. Certainly, nothing but some such decreed unavoidable misery attending,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1836 - 424 pages
...composed judgment to go home, yet I had no power to do it. I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret overruling decree that hurries...destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open. * These notes were written by Mr. C. in Mr. Gillman's copy of Robinson... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1836 - 406 pages
...judgment, to go home, yet I had no power to do it. I know not what to call this, nor will I urge Ihat it is a secret overruling decree that hurries us on...destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open. Certainly, nothing but some such decreed unavoidable misery attending,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 1024 pages
...no power to do it. I know not what to c*fl this. i nor will 1 urge that it is a secret over-rulins I decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of...pushed me ! forward against the calm reasonings and pe*¡suasions of my most retired thoughts, and again!.' tiro inch visible instructions as I had met... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 728 pages
...I decree, that hurries us on to be the instrument» of our own destruction, even though it be btArt us, and that we push upon it with our eyes open Certainly...decreed, unavoidable misery attending, and which it wni in possible for me to escape, ceuld have pushed кforward against the calm reasonings snJ [ suasions... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Adventure stories - 1846 - 506 pages
...composed judgement, to go home, yet I had no power to do it. — I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, over-ruling decree, that...destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open. Certainly, nothing but some such decreed, unavoidable misery attending,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Shipwreck survival - 1847 - 946 pages
...composed judgment to go home, yet I had no power to do it. I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret overruling decree that hurries...destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open. Certainly nothing but some such decreed unavoidable misery attending,... | |
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I had several times loud calls from my reason and my more composed judgment to go home, yet I had no power to do it. I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret overruling decree that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own... 
