 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 - 1888 - 608 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pàgines
...Holy Life. He relates that he took the volume up, expecting to find it dull and open to ridicule. " But I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this...earnest of Religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry." Henceforth it was impossible for him to live any longer at random; he took a Master, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pàgines
...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 enquiry."2 1 William Law was born 1686, entered, in 1705, of Em. Coll., Cambridge, Fellow in 1711,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pàgines
...till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When .it 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 - 1891 - 548 pàgines
...that there he took up Law's Serious Call and found it quite an overmatch for him. ' This,' he said, ' was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of rational enquiry.' During the vacation of 1729 he had a serious illness (ante, \. 73), which most likely was... | |
 | William Law - 1893 - 402 pàgines
...the Christian Perfection.' ' When I was at Oxford,' said Dr. Johnson, ' I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion.' And again : ' Law's Serious Call is the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language.' ' Mr.... | |
 | William Law - 1893 - 386 pàgines
...the Christian Perfection.' ' When I was at Oxford,' said Dr. Johnson, ' I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion.' And again : 'Law's Serious Call is the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language.' 'Mr. Law's... | |
 | 1893 - 1110 pàgines
...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 ; he had a devout nature and a religious mother,... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - 1893 - 760 pàgines
...a Holy Life" (1729), of which Samuel Johnson says: "When at Oxford I took up Law's 'Serious Call,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 466 pàgines
...obligations to the " Serious Call." "When at Oxford," he says, "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." By the same robust writer the " Serious Call " was further described as " the finest... | |
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