 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Call to the Unconverted,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as fuch books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it....found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the firft occafion of my thinking in earneft of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry V... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...fays the Dodor, I took up " Law's Serious Call to the Unconverted," expecting to find it a' dull book, a-nd perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the firff occafion of my thinking in earned about religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not \tefuffered. When at Oxford, I took up " Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life," expecting...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."' From this timo forward, religion was the predominant object of his thoughts; though, with the. just... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...vii. 1 1 5. See post, Oct. 10. 1 779. ' We may compare with this a passage in Verecundulus's letter in to a Holy Life*,' expecting to find it a dull book...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I The Rambler, No. 1 57 : — ' Though many among my fellow students [at the university] took the opportunity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...passage in Verecundulus's letter in to Aetat. 20.] yohnson grounded in religion. 79 to a Holy Life1,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I The Rambler, No. 1 57 : — ' Though many among my fellow students [at the university] took the opportunity... | |
 | 1815 - 892 pages
...Dr. Johnson is well known, but will bear repeating. " When at Oxford," said l his great man, " 1 took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such hooks generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it; but I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this... | |
 | 1803 - 466 pages
...Johnion, ' I took up " Law's S;rioas Call to a Devout and Holy Lile," expeéling to find it a dull book, and, perhaps, to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch lor roe ; and this was the £rli occafion of my thinking in earned of religion, after I became capable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...against it; and this lasted till 1 went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up " Law's Serious 'Call to a Holy Life," expecting...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after 1 became capable of rational enquiry.''* - Mrs. 1'i< i/yi has given a strange fantastical account of... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 pages
...entire, as expressed in the prefatory remarks of this number. ' When at Oxford," says he, ' I took up Law's serious call to a holy life, expecting to...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.' Even the historian Gibbon, though himself an infidel, says of it ' if' there exists a spark of piety... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up Law's " Serious Call to a Holy Life," expecting...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." * In a letter from Miss Hill Boothby to Johnson, dated 1755, is the following passage : " Have you... | |
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Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I... 
