 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...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... | |
 | Missions - 1797 - 610 pages
...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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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 (as such books generally...quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I The Rambler, No. 1 57 : — ' Though many among... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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, (as such books generally...quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."' From... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...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...quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I The Rambler, No. 1 57 : — ' Though many among... | |
 | Religion - 1815 - 892 pages
...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...quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my iliiakin* in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." The same... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...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, (as such books generally...quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after 1 became capable of rational enquiry.''* - Mrs.... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...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, (as such books generally...quite an overmatch for me, and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.' Even the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...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 (as such books generally...quite an over-match for me *. And this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." * In a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...Life," expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it. I5ut I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry." From this... | |
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When at Oxford, I took up 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... 
