...injudicious tieatment In his boyhood, ought not to be included in the catalogue of his failings.— MABKLASD. Oxford, I took up ' Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a doll book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. Bat I found Law quite an overmatch...

...Doctor, " I took up Law's ' Serious Call,' expecting to find it a dull book, as such books generally are. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry." In another place Dr. Johnson says that Law's " Serious Call " " is the finest piece of hortatory...

...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 over-match for me ; and this...was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest.' 2 On another occasion he called it 'the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language,' and on...

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...did not much think against 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...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." To Boswell's great surprise, he asked him to dine with him on Easter-day. He never supposed that he...

...this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's1 Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry."3 From this time 1 William Law was born 1686, entered, in 1705, of Em. Coll., Cambridge, Fellow...

...this lasted till I went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up ' Law's l Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it...earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational enquiry."3 From this time 1 William Law was born 1686, entered, in 1705, of Em. Coll., Cambridge, Fellow...

...study of Scripture and of religious books. " I took up ' Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' " he says, "expecting to find it a dull book, as such books generally...religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." The solemnity of feeling in regard to religious subjects he never afterwards lost, although he himself...

...study of Scripture and of religious books. " I took up ' Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life," " he says, "expecting to find it a dull book, as such books generally...and this was the first occasion of my thinking in carnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry." The solemnity of feeling in regard...

...not much think against 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...laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ;2 and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of...