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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... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Página 38
por James Boswell - 1831
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1791 - 554 páginas
...Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Call to the Unconverted,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as fuch books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it....found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the firft occafion of my thinking in earneft of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry V...
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The Evangelical Magazine, Volumen5

1797 - 610 páginas
...fays the Dodor, I took up " Law's Serious Call to the Unconverted," expecting to find it a' dull book, a-nd perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the firff occafion of my thinking in earned about religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1799 - 496 páginas
...till I went to Oxford, where it would not \tefuffered. 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."' From this timo forward, religion was the predominant object of his thoughts; though, with...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...vii. 1 1 5. See post, Oct. 10. 1 779. ' We may compare with this a passage in Verecundulus's letter in to a Holy Life*,' expecting to find it a dull book...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I The Rambler, No. 1 57 : — ' Though many among my fellow students [at the university] took the opportunity...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...passage in Verecundulus's letter in to Aetat. 20.] yohnson grounded in religion. 79 to a Holy Life1,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I The Rambler, No. 1 57 : — ' Though many among my fellow students [at the university] took the opportunity...
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The Christian Observer, Volumen13

1815 - 892 páginas
...but will bear repeating. " When at Oxford," said l his great man, " 1 took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such hooks generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it; but I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this...
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The Orthodox churchman's magazine; or, A Treasury of divine and ..., Volumen3

1803 - 466 páginas
...Johnion, ' I took up " Law's S;rioas Call to a Devout and Holy Lile," expeéling to find it a dull book, and, perhaps, to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch lor roe ; and this was the £rli occafion of my thinking in earned of religion, after I became capable...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1807 - 514 páginas
...till 1 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,...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after 1 became capable of rational enquiry.''* - Mrs. 1'i< i/yi has given a strange fantastical account of...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volumen5

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 páginas
...in the prefatory remarks of this number. ' 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.' Even the historian Gibbon, though himself an infidel, says of it ' if there exists a spark...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 páginas
...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." * In a letter from Miss Hill Boothby to Johnson, dated 1755, is the following passage : "...
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