 | Augustine Birrell - English essays - 1923 - 430 pages
...book, "as" (the words are his, not mine) " such books generally are " ; but, he proceeds, " I found Law an overmatch for me, and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest." George Whitefield writes, " Soon after my coming up to the university, seeing a small edition of Mr.... | |
 | James MacLuckie Connell - Devotional literature - 1924 - 170 pages
...Serious Call to a Devout and 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...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." And other notable testimonies to the influence of Law's writings could be cited. Some years after being... | |
 | James Boswell - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1925 - 104 pages
...Serious Call to the Unconverted,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...predominant object of his thoughts; though, with the just sentiments of a conscientious Christian, he lamented that his practice of its duties fell far short... | |
 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are), Z sentiments of a conscientious Christian, he lamented that his practice of its duties fell far short... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - Eighteenth century - 1926 - 602 pages
...he went to Oxford he was a lax talker against religion, but then he discovered A Serious Call and ' found Law quite an over-match for me ; and this was...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion ' . Gibbon also was impressed by the power of the same book. Its force lay in the emphasis it laid... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...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...occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I l,trame capable of rational enquiry."1 -From this time forward religion was the predominant object... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1928 - 280 pages
...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 overmatch for me ; and this...was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest.' The first Lord Lyttelton, the historian and friend of Thomson, is said to have taken up the book one... | |
 | American periodicals - 1893 - 866 pages
...of his nature. It was at Oxford that, after reading Law's "Serious Call," he wrote in his diary : " This was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest...religion after I became capable of rational inquiry." But doubtless the soil was well prepared ; lie had a devout nature and a religious mother, and the... | |
 | William Law - Religion - 1955 - 164 pages
...intellectual integrity. " I expected," said Johnson, " to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it, but I found Law quite...religion after I became capable of rational inquiry." Though there have been many reprints of Law's most famous work, the present volume represents something... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Literary Collections - 1968 - 400 pages
...and Holy Life (1729), which Johnson had first read at Oxford, "expecting to find it a dull book . . . and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite...first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion." Already, in Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), we can see two strains combining, though with... | |
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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... 
