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The petition is, in his mind, invariably associated with seasons of great sorrow, disaster, and calamity, when, having apparently nothing else to hope for, a prayer is offered for the will of God! It is somewhat vaguely held to be the appropriate expression for the last emergency, and that it implies resigning one's self to the most serious and irreferable calamity.
The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting
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Pure action, that is, the will, is a 'noumenon', and irreferable to time.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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