 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...religion, for I did not much think against it; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, when I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), but I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest.'... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pages
...this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up Law's inquiry." From this time forward religion was the predominant object of his thoughts; though, with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1925 - 104 pages
...where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Call to the Unconverted,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." From this time forward, religion was the predominant object of his thoughts; though, with... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1926 - 602 pages
...he went to Oxford he was a lax talker against religion, but then he discovered A Serious Call and ' found Law quite an over-match for me ; and this was...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion ' . Gibbon also was impressed by the power of the same book. Its force lay in the emphasis it laid... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...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...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I l,trame capable of rational enquiry."1 -From this time forward religion was the predominant object... | |
 | John Dennis - 1928 - 280 pages
...religion, for I did not much think against it; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, when I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), but I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest.'... | |
 | 1893 - 866 pages
...of his nature. It was at Oxford that, after reading Law's "Serious Call," he wrote in his diary : " This was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of rational inquiry." But doubtless the soil was well prepared ; lie had a devout nature and a religious mother,... | |
 | William Law - 1955 - 164 pages
...possible to be a Christian without any loss of intellectual integrity. " I expected," said Johnson, " to find it a dull book (as such books generally are),...earnest of religion after I became capable of rational inquiry." Though there have been many reprints of Law's most famous work, the present volume represents... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...and Holy Life (1729), which Johnson had first read at Oxford, "expecting to find it a dull book . . . and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion." Already, in Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), we can see two strains combining, though with... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...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...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." * In a letter from Miss Hill Boothby to Johnsou, dated 1755, is the following passage : "... | |
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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... 
