 | Arthur Cayley Headlam (Bishop of Gloucester) - Theology - 1899 - 572 pages
...excellent biographical note to the first mention of Law's name. ' When at Oxford,' says the Doctor, ' I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life expecting...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... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - Church and state - 1878 - 606 pages
...against religion, for I did not much think against it; and this lasted until I went to Oxford, where I took up Law's " Serious Call to a Holy Life," expecting...find it a dull book (as such books generally are). But I found Law quite an over-match for me, and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest.'1... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 pages
...injudicious tieatment In his boyhood, ought not to be included in the catalogue of his failings.— MABKLASD. Oxford, 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. Bat I found Law quite an overmatch... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...did not much think 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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 722 pages
...this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's1 Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's l Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it...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... | |
 | James Macaulay - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 164 pages
...study of Scripture and of religious books. " I took up ' Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' " he says, "expecting to find it a dull book, as such books generally are, and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an over-match for me ; and this was the first occasion of my... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 598 pages
...not much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered1. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Call to...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 pages
...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 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...not much think 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...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... | |
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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 Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull... 
