 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...church" (Life, nI, 59). In short, Johnson was "a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church-of-England and monarchical principles, which he would not tamely suffer to be questioned" (Life, iv, 416). When Johnson himself was enduring a personal crisis (Diaries, pp. 44-47, 59-60) or... | |
 | André Gide - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 374 pages
...them, Boswell implicitly admits himself, though sharing his convictions, and that through them "he had perhaps, at an early period, narrowed his mind...somewhat too much, both as to religion and politics." And it is not one of the least interests of this book that it allows us to follow the intentional narrowing... | |
 | John T. Lynch - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 244 pages
...important questions, as Boswell notes: He was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church-of-England and monarchical principles, which he would not tamely suffer to be questioned . . . His being impressed with the danger of extreme latitude in either [religion or politics] , though... | |
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He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy. He was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church... 
