 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, LL.D. - Pàgina 38per James Boswell - 1831Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pàgines
...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 a dull book...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...and this was the first occasion of my thinking in the author of the best French comedy after Molière, was atrabilious, and Molière himself saturnine.... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 pàgines
...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,...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 pàgines
...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 book,...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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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