 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...  The Life and Letters of Walter Farquhar Hook - Page 99de William Richard Wood Stephens - 1879Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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 became capable of rational inquiry."' From this timo forward, religion was the predominant object of his thoughts; though, with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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 The Rambler, No. 1 57 : — ' Though many among my fellow students [at the university] took the opportunity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...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 The Rambler, No. 1 57 : — ' Though many among my fellow students [at the university] took the opportunity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...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 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 pages
...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 became capable of rational inquiry.' Even the historian Gibbon, though himself an infidel, says of it ' if there exists a spark... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...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 thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." * In a letter from Miss Hill Boothby to Johnson, dated 1755, is the following passage : "... | |
 | Job Orton - 1816 - 148 pages
...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 of 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 pages
...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 of...religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry." From this time forward religion was the predominant object of his thoughts; though with the just sentiments... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 372 pages
...generally are), and, perhaps, to langh 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 became capable of rational inquiry." To BoswelPs great surprise, he asked him to dine with him on Easter-day. He never supposed,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...books generally arc,) 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 became capable of rational inquiry." * From this time forward religion was the predominant object of his thoughts; though, with... | |
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