Learn English – “Of course not” or “of course no”

I have come across this usage of the catenation feel + to-infinitive at Church ('I felt to ask him...'; 'I felt to go to ...') but consider it to be non-standard. I can't find dictionary or Google Ngram support for the catenative usage. Perhaps it is a downtoning of 'I felt led to ask him...' here.

The feel + that-clause

I don't feel [that] I can trust him.

I felt [ ] I ought to ask him.

(whether the 'that' is included or not) is quite acceptable, of course.

It's possible that it's an idiom that came out of Greek to English translation. I just ran across the phrase "οὐδενὸς δεύτερον", "second of none", twice in the early pages of Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Roman Antiquities (I.13.1, I.15.2, where Earnest Cary translated it as "inferior to none" and "second to none" respectively in the Loeb edition). Or perhaps Dionysius took it from Latin, though I'm not sure what the oldest occurrence of "Nulli Secundus" (as mentioned above) is.