 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 584 pages
...had been a lax talker, rather than thinker, against religion till he went to Oxford. ' When at Oxford I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull 1 In the Oxford Sausage the ex-fellow who has taken a living regrets the time 'When calm around the... | |
 | Douglas Macleane - 1897 - 580 pages
...had been a lax talker, rather than thinker, against religion till he went to Oxford. ' When at Oxford I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a doll 1 In the Oxford Sausage the ex-fellow who has taken a living regrets the time 'When calm around... | |
 | John Dennis - 1899 - 294 pages
...against religion, for I did not much tit in I: against it; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, when I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting...find it a dull book (as such books generally are), but I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest.'... | |
 | Pickering & Chatto - 1900 - 516 pages
...WILLIAM LAW, A..M. 17:9. FIRST EDITION, &vo, fine copy in old calf , £1 2s When at Oxford, I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting...dull book (as such books generally are) and perhaps laugh at it. But I found Law quite an over-match for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 540 pages
...against it; and this lasted till I I went to Oxford, where it would not be sifffered. When at Oxford, I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting...books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. -ButJL.fJQ.UJld Law quite an overmatcJLfjpr me ; and this was the first occjasioa.of-JBy thinking in... | |
 | John Henry Overton - 1902 - 524 pages
...against religion, for I did not much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, when I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting...find it a dull book, as such books generally are. But I found_Law-quite- aĞ -trver-match for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in... | |
 | Louise Imogen Guiney - 1904 - 524 pages
...arrive at 1 See p. 236 for Mr. Keble's rebuke to Hurrell for a verbal flippancy. ' When at Oxford, I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting...dull book, as such books generally are, and perhaps laugh at it. But I found Law quite an over-match for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking... | |
 | John Dennis - 1906 - 286 pages
...against religion, for I did not much think against it; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, when I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting...find it a dull book (as such books generally are), but I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest.'... | |
 | John Dennis - 1908 - 288 pages
...not much think against it; and this lasted till I went to Oxford, when I took up Law's Serious Gall to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), but I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest.'... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 626 pages
...religion, for I did not much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford3/ When there, I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life^ expecting...find it a dull book (as such books generally are). . . . But I found Law quite an oYer-match for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in... | |
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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 1 found Law quite an overmatch for me... 
