| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...Oct. 10, 1779. ' We may compare with this a passage in Verecundulus's letter in to a Holy Life 1 ,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally...quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I The Rambler, No. 157 :—' Though many among... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...intercepted his reformation.' Johnson's Works, vii. 115. See post, Oct. io, 1779. to a Holy Life 1 ,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally...quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I The Rambler, No. 157 :—' Though many among... | |
| 1803 - 466 pages
...Johnion, ' I took up " Law's S;rioas Call to a Devout and Holy Lile," expeéling to find it a dull book, and, perhaps, to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch lor roe ; and this was the £rli occafion of my thinking in earned of religion, after I became capable... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 pages
...remarks of thie number. « When at Oxford,' says he, < I took up Lew's serious call to a holy life, expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally...quite an overmatch for me, and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.' Even the... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...Oxford,' says he, ' 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...quite an overmatch for me, and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.' Even the... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...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 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...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...quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry." From this... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 372 pages
...Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, 1 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 quitean overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of ray thinking in earnest of religion, after... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's Serious Ca\Y to Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally...quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." * From... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...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 generally...quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." * From... | |
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