 | John Wain - Fiction - 1975 - 412 pages
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 | Joseph Towers - 1975 - 402 pages
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 | William Law - Religion - 1978 - 548 pages
...manner of encomia. When Samuel Johnson went to Oxford, he picked it up "expecting to find it a dull book (such books generally are) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me." Boswell, who reports this saying, adds, "From this time forward, religion was the dominant object of... | |
 | Austin Warren - Literary Collections - 1996 - 244 pages
...manner of encomia. When Samuel Johnson went to Oxford, he picked it up "expecting to find it a dull book (such books generally are) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me." Boswell, who reports this saying, adds, "From this time forward, religion was the dominant object of... | |
 | John H. Darch, Stuart K. Burns - Christian saints - 2004 - 248 pages
...until l went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, l took up Law's Serious Call, expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But l found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of... | |
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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... 
