| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 442 pages
...much think against it; and this lasted till I 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 such books geflerally are, and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was... | |
| 1827 - 854 pages
...the writings of Law, we entirely sympathize with the confession of Dr. Johnson, when he said ; — " 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 overmatch for me ; and this was the... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Call to a Holy...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... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up 'Law's Serious Call to a Holy...dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But 1 found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...till I went to Oxford, where it would not^be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Gall 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... | |
| Art - 1832 - 592 pages
...agreeable and ingenious writers of the times." "When at Oxford," says Dr. Johnson, " I took APPENDIX. up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to...dull book, (as such books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an over-match for me ; and this was the first occasion of my... | |
| James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...much think against it; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not he suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Call to a Holy...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's (i) Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...much think against it; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When hook (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...A still higher testimony to Law's powers is furnished by Dr Johnson : " When at Oxford," says he, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting...dull book, (as such books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an over-match for me ; and this was the first occasion of my... | |
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