 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1870 - 1344 halaman
...Life, expecting to tlud it a dull book (as such books generally are) and perhaps laugh at it. But 1 found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion after 1 became capable of rational inquiry.' . . . Ho [Johnson } much commended Law's Serious Call, which,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 halaman
...piety which he met with there—"Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life." He took it up, he tells us, " expecting to find it a dull book, as such books generally...and perhaps to laugh at it, but I found Law quite an even match for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 650 halaman
...our most popular works ou practical religion. - \Mi-ii 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 laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for m«; and this wae the first occasion of my thinking... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 halaman
...to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up Luio's lierions Call to a Huly Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as such books...and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmateh for me : and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 halaman
...religious subjects were made on his mind :—" When at 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." About his particular studies at Oxford not much is known. What he read solidly there was, he tells... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 halaman
...where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Call to the Unconverted,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."" From this time forward, religion was the predominant object of his thoughts ; though, with the just... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam (Bishop of Gloucester) - 1899 - 572 halaman
...first mention of Law's name. ' When at Oxford,' says the Doctor, ' I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life expecting to find it a dull book, as such...earnest of religion after I became capable of rational enquiry.' Again : ' he much commended Law's Serious Call, which, he said, was the finest piece of hortatory... | |
 | 1877 - 992 halaman
...Call, "expecting to find it," as he confessed, " a dull book, and perhaps to laugh at it" He added : " But I found Law quite an overmatch for me : and this...religion after I became capable of rational inquiry." Boswell states that from that time religion became the predominant object of Johnson's" thoughts. "Wesley... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - 1878 - 606 halaman
...think against it; and this lasted until I went to Oxford, where I took up Law's " Serious Call to a Holy Life," expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are). But I found Law quite an over-match for me, and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest.'1... | |
 | William Richard Wood Stephens - 1879 - 500 halaman
...perhaps to laugh at it. These are his own words, but says he, ' I found Law an overmatch for me, and that was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry. Now of this book I intend always to read a chapter every morning ; I am sure it will be of... | |
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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... 
