 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...Unconverted,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as fuch books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I 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
...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
...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...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I The Rambler, No. 1 57 : — ' Though many among my fellow students [at the university] took... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."' From this timo forward, religion was the predominant... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...Life1,' 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...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I The Rambler, No. 1 57 : — ' Though many among my fellow students [at the university] took... | |
 | Religion - 1815 - 892 pages
...Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such hooks 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 iliiakin* in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." The same celebrated... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...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...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after 1 became capable of rational enquiry.''* - Mrs. 1'i< i/yi has given a strange fantastical account... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 710 pages
...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...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.' Even the historian Gibbon, though himself an infidel,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...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 over-match for me *. And...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." * In a letter from Miss Hill Boothby to Johnson, dated... | |
 | 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...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry." From this time forward religion was the predominant object... | |
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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... 
