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... The Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 11by James Boswell - 1873 - 576 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...not much think against 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...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
...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...overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my iliiakin* in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." The same celebrated... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...did not much think 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...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
...the work 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...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
...did not much Ihinlc about 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...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 384 pages
...did not much Mm* 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...are), and, perhaps, to laugh at it. But I found Law quitean overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after... | |
| Johnson Grant - 1820 - 474 pages
...than comprehensive and universal. •*' When at Oxford," says Johnson, " I took up Law's Serious Call, expecting to find it a dull book, as such books generally...quite an overmatch for me; and this was the. first time of my thinking in earnest about religion." *' The Spirit of Prayer" and " The Spirit of Xow" are... | |
| Johnson Grant - 1820 - 476 pages
...than comprehensive and universal. " When at Oxford," says Johnson, " I took up Law's Serious Call, expecting to find it a dull book, as such books generally...quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first time of my thinking in earnest about religion." " The Spirit of Prayer " and " The Spirit of Love"... | |
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