Date: 1719
"No one, that shall ever read this Account, will expect that I should be able to describe the Horrors of my Soul at this terrible Vision, I mean, that even while it was a Dream, I even dreamed of those Horrors; nor is it any more possible to describe the Impression that remain'd upon my Mind, whe...
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Date: 1719
"[A]nd this I must observe with Grief too, that the Discomposure of my Mind had too great Impressions also upon the religious Part of my Thoughts, for the Dread and Terror of falling into the Hands of Savages and Canibals, lay so upon my Spirits, that I seldom found my self in a due Temper for Ap...
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Date: 1719
A "strange Impression upon the Mind, from we know not what Springs, and by we know not what Power," may over-rule us
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Date: 1719
"I thought the Impression was so strong upon my Mind, that it could not be resisted, that it must come from some invisible Direction"
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Date: 1719
"The Words were very apt to my Case, and made some Impression upon my Thoughts at the time of reading them"
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