Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe : with his Vision of the angelick world . ^n Essay on the pnfent State afReligion m th Worlds. N that Part of my Work, which maybe called Hiftory, I have fre-quently mentiond the unconque-rable Impreflions which dwelt up-on jny Mind, and fiiiM up ail my. Deiires immoveably prefTing me to a wandringtraveilfiig Life^ and which puflid me continuallyon, from one Adventure to another, as you haveheard. , ;^ There is an in^ohfiderate Temper which fefghsin lour Minds, that hurriesus down the Stream ofour Affedions, by a
Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe : with his Vision of the angelick world . ^n Essay on the pnfent State afReligion m th Worlds. N that Part of my Work, which maybe called Hiftory, I have fre-quently mentiond the unconque-rable Impreflions which dwelt up-on jny Mind, and fiiiM up ail my. Deiires immoveably prefTing me to a wandringtraveilfiig Life^ and which puflid me continuallyon, from one Adventure to another, as you haveheard. , ;^ There is an in^ohfiderate Temper which fefghsin lour Minds, that hurriesus down the Stream ofour Affedions, by a kind of involuntary Agency, and makes us do a thoufand things. in the doing of which^ we propofe nothing to our felves, but animmediate Siibjedion to our WILL, that is tofay, our Paflion, even without .,the Concurrenceof our Underftandings, and of which v^e can givevery little Account, ^/^€r^/.f Jo*i;^. You may nowfuppofeme to be arrived, after along Courfe of infinite Variety, on the Stage ofthe World, to the Scene of Life, we call Qld^Age ;and that I am writing thefe Sheets in a Seafon ofmy Time, wben (if ever) a Man may befuppofed14 capable [ m 1 capable of m^a^Ti
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