 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...religion, for I did not much think against 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 to find it a dull hook (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...A still higher testimony to Law's powers is furnished by Dr Johnson : " When at Oxford," says he, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." The same work, it is stated, produced such an effect on John Wesley, that no sooner had he perused... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...expecting to find it a dull book, and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch 1'or me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking...religion was the predominant object of his thoughts. Are there some, who repair to the fields on the sabbath for amusement, let them reflect that this appeared... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 266 pages
...A still higher testimony to Law's powers is furnished by Dr Johnson : " When at Oxford," says he, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are,J and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an over-match for me ; and this was the first... | |
 | 1842 - 300 pages
...THE ENGLISHMAN S MAGAZINE. this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When nt Oxford, I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,'...rational inquiry." From this time forward religion became the leading object of his thoughts ; though with Christian humility he always owned and lamented... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...religion, for I did not much think against it; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I bei came capable of rational inquiry V From this time forward religion was the predominant object of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's6 Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it...and this was the first occasion of my thinking in ihe author of the best French comedy after Molicre, was atrabilious, and Mollere himself saturnine.... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 pages
...domestic devotion." the manner of many religious books, and perhaps to laugh at it. " But," he says, " I found Law quite an overmatch for me: and this was...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." The amiable Bishop Sandford has said, that no one aids the devil's cause more than he who preaches... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 516 pages
...world."* A still higher testimony to Law's powers is furuished by Dr Johnson: "When at Oxford," says he, "I took up Law's 'Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." The same work, it is stated, produced such an effect on John Wesley, that no sooner had he perused... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...his boyhood, ought not to be included in the catalogue of Ms failings.— MARKLAND. LIFE OF JOHNSON. Oxford, I took up ' Law's * Serious Call to a Holy...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." 2 From this time forward religion was the predominant object of his thoughts ; though, with the just... | |
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When at Oxford I took up 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... 
