 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's6 Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it...and this was the first occasion of my thinking in ihe author of the best French comedy after Molicre, was atrabilious, and Mollere himself saturnine.... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 pages
...domestic devotion." the manner of many religious books, and perhaps to laugh at it. " But," he says, " I found Law quite an overmatch for me: and this was...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." The amiable Bishop Sandford has said, that no one aids the devil's cause more than he who... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 518 pages
...testimony to 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...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... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 562 pages
...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 to find it...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."* The author whose book produced such deep impression on minds like those of Samuel Johnson... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 436 pages
...finds so charming in another. WILLIAM LAW. " When at Oxford," says Dr Johnson, " I took up Law's • Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."* The author whose book produced such deep impression on minds like those of Samuel Johnson... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 pages
...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...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."* The author whose book produced such deep impression on minds like those of Samuel Johnson... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 436 pages
...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 to find it...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."* The author whose book produced such deep impression on minds like those of Samuel Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...boyhood, ought not 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...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 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...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 pages
...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 perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me... | |
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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... 
