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" When at Oxford I took up 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... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the ... - Page 22
by James Boswell - 1833
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Call to the Unconverted,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as fuch books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it....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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...not much think 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...I became capable of rational inquiry."' From this timo forward, religion was the predominant object of his thoughts; though, with the. just sentiments...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...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...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 13

Religion - 1815 - 892 pages
...man, " 1 took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such hooks generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it; but I...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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...religion, for t did not much think 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...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...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 710 pages
...the work entire, as expressed in the prefatory remarks of this number. ' When at Oxford," says he, ' I took up Law's serious call to a holy life, expecting...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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...religion, for I did not much 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...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...
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Six Discourses on Family Worship

Job Orton - Families - 1816 - 148 pages
...of all orders of Christians, by William Law, AM Abridged. 4 When at Oxford,' said Dr. J. ' I took op Law's Serious Call to a holy life, expecting to find...book, (as such 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...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...religion, for I did not much think against it; und this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up " Law's Serious...books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it. I5ut I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest...
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