| Christian classics - 1858 - 880 halaman
...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...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."* The author whose book produced such deep impression on minds like those of Samuel Johnson and the Weslcys,... | |
| James Hamilton - 1859 - 436 halaman
...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 a dull book (as such...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."* The author whose book produced such deep impression on minds like those of Samuel Johnson and the Wesleys,... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 496 halaman
...included in the catalogue of his fallings.—MAMLAND. Oxford, I took up ' Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."' From this time forward religion was the predominant object of his thoughts ; though, with the just... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 948 halaman
...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 halaman
...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...and this was the first occasion of my thinking in the author of the best French comedy after Molière, was atrabilious, and Molière himself saturnine.... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 832 halaman
...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 a dull book, (as...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 perused... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 halaman
...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, (as...religion after I became capable of rational inquiry. FALSE TEACHING. I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the... | |
| 1867 - 548 halaman
...breathes in Law's practical writings. " When at Oxford," he says, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books usually are), and perhaps to laugh at it ; but I found Law quite an over-match for me, and this was... | |
| 1868 - 846 halaman
...this direction he unsparingly denounced, and * " When at Oxford, I took up Law's Serious Cull to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as such books usually are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me, and this was the... | |
| Luke Tyerman - 1870 - 590 halaman
...effect on Dr. Johnson. "When at Oxford," says Johnson, "I took it up expecting to find it a dull book, and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of religious inquiry." * Ibid. vol. xi., p. 352. 1727 Wesley's intentions were as sincere and pure as... | |
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