 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...  Johnsoniana.. - Page 135by James Boswell - 1820 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 436 pages
...one's self that one finds so charming in another. WILLIAM LAW. " When at Oxford," says Dr Johnson, " I took up Law's • Serious Call to a Holy Life,'...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... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 562 pages
...loved by God from all eternity! Y, 12th August 1686. WILLIAM LAW. " When at Oxford," says Dr Johnson, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...reluctance to go to church. I then became a sort of lax talker against religion, for I did not much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at 1 " Their souls at first from high Olympus came ; And, if not blunted by the mortal frame, Th' ethereal... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 pages
...from all eternity ! WOBBRN ABBEY, 12M Augutt 1036. WILLIAM LAW. " When at Oxford," says Dr Johnson, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a doll book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1858 - 598 pages
...and drunk and swore with the same vehemence that he did everything which he did at all. At Oxford he took up ' Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it dull, and intending to ridicule it. He quickly discovered that he was over-matched, and for the first... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...and drunk and swore with the same vehemence that he did everything which he did at all. At Oxford he took up ' Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it dull, and intending to ridicule it. He quickly discovered that he was over-matched, and for the first... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 436 pages
...from all eternity ! WOBOKM ABBEY, 12th Auyutt 1685. WILLIAM LAW. " When at Oxford," says Dr Johnson, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...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...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 the author of the best... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...church. I then became a sort of lax talker against religion, for I did not much think against it ; und 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...reluctance to go to church. I then became a sort of lax talker against religion, for I did not much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at 1 " Their souls at first from high Olympus came; And, if not blunted by the mortal frame, Th' ethereal... | |
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