 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 sider
...against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not \tefuffered. When at Oxford, I took up " Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life," expecting...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry."' From this timo forward, religion was the predominant object of his thoughts; though, with the. just... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 sider
...vii. 1 1 5. See post, Oct. 10. 1 779. ' We may compare with this a passage in Verecundulus's letter in to a Holy Life*,' expecting to find it a dull book...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 the opportunity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 sider
...passage in Verecundulus's letter in to Aetat. 20.] yohnson grounded in religion. 79 to a Holy Life1,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally...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 the opportunity... | |
 | 1815 - 892 sider
...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 writer afterwards " much commended the ' Serious Call ' as the finest piece of hortatory... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 sider
...against it; and this lasted till 1 went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up " Law's Serious 'Call to a Holy Life," expecting...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 of... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 sider
...than that of Dr. Johnson of the work entire, as> expressed in the prefatory remarks of this number. ' When at Oxford,' says he, ' I took up Law's serious...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.' Even the historian Gibbon, though himself an infidel, says of it ' if there exists a spark of piety... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 sider
...Ihinlc about 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...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." * In a letter from Miss Hill Boothby to Johnson, dated 1755, is the following passage : " Have you... | |
 | Job Orton - 1816 - 148 sider
...books generally are,) and perhaps to faugh at it. Rut I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and tliir was. the first occasion of my thinking in earnest...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." Vide Boswell's life of Johnson, third edition, vol. I. p, 49. N ' . A. Treatise on Self Knowledge.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 sider
...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...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry." From this time forward religion was the predominant object of his thoughts; though with the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 sider
...When at Oxford, I took up " Law's Serions Call te a Holy Life," expecting to find it a dull book, (aл such books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry." From this time forward religion was the predominant object of his thoughts; though with the... | |
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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... 
