 | 1848 - 508 pages
...When at Oxford, I took np Law's ' Serious Call to the Unconverted,' expecting to find it a dull book, and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch 1'or me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...talker against religion," as he described himself, " for he did not much think against it." At Oxford he took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find a subject of ridicule ; but he " found Law quite an overmatch for him," and from that time his belief... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1846 - 318 pages
...talker against religion," as he described himself, " for he did not much think against it." At Oxford he took up Law's " Serious Call to a Holy Life," expecting to find a subject of ridicule ; but he " found Law quite an overmatch for him," and from that time his belief... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 340 pages
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 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 470 pages
...talker against religion," as he described himself, " for he did not much think against it." At Oxford he took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find a subject of ridicule ; but he " found Law quite an overmatch for him," and from that time his belief... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 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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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 1 found Law quite an overmatch for me... 
