Sublime

But I was hurried on, and obey’d blindly the dictates of my fancy rather than my reason;

But I that was born to be my own destroyer, could no more resist the offer than I could restrain my first rambling designs,

not embarass’d with the labours of the hands or of the head,

These wise and sober thoughts continued all the while the storm continued, and indeed some time after;

then I call’d a council, that is to say, in my thoughts,

but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea, and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and perswasions of my mother and other friends, that there seem’d to be something fatal in that propension of nature tending directly to the life of misery which was t