"No Pen can describe it, no Tongue can express it, no Thought conceive it, unless some of those who were in the Extremity of it; and who, being touch'd with a due sense of the sparing Mercy of their Maker, retain the deep Impressions of his Goodness upon their Minds, tho' the Danger be past: and of those I doubt the Number is but few."
The Storm: Or a Collection of Casualties and Disasters Which happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, Both By Sea and Land
Daniel Defoe, <u>The Storm: Or a Collection of Casualties and Disasters Which happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, Both By Sea and Land</u>. (London: Printed for G. Sawbridge, 1704)<br>
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Text from Richard Hamblyn's edition of <u>The Storm</u> (Penguin Classics) 