 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pagini
...boyhood, ought not to be included in the catalogue of his fallings.—MAMLAND. 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."' From this time forward religion was the predominant object of his thoughts ; though, with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pagini
...Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up 'Law's6 Serious Call to a Holy Lift,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally...and this was the first occasion of my thinking in the author of the best French comedy after Mollere, was atrabilious, and Moliere himself saturnine.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pagini
...this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up 'Law's 6 Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (us such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 pagini
...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...earnest of 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pagini
...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. FALSE TEACHING. I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning... | |
 | 1867 - 548 pagini
...earnestness which breathes in Law's practical writings. " When at Oxford," he says, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books usually are), and perhaps to laugh at it ; but I found Law quite an over-match for me, and this was... | |
 | 1868 - 846 pagini
...offending in this direction he unsparingly denounced, and * " When at Oxford, I took up Law's Serious Cull to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as such books usually are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me, and this was the... | |
 | Luke Tyerman - 1870 - 590 pagini
...effect on Dr. Johnson. "When at Oxford," says Johnson, "I took it up expecting to find it a dull book, and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of religious inquiry." * Ibid. vol. xi., p. 352. 1727 Wesley's intentions were as sincere and pure as... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1870 - 1344 pagini
...Life, expecting to tlud it a dull book (as such books generally are) and perhaps laugh at it. But 1 found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion after 1 became capable of rational inquiry.' . . . Ho [Johnson } much commended Law's Serious Call, which,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pagini
...piety which he met with there—"Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life." He took it up, he tells us, " expecting to find it a dull book, as such books generally...and perhaps to laugh at it, but I found Law quite an even match for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became... | |
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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... 
