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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... "
The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 111
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500 Important Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters, Volume 2

J. Pearson & Co - 1910 - 272 pages
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 2

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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The Cambridge History of English Literature: From Steele and Addison to Pope ...

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 636 pages
...religion, for I did not much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford2.' When there, I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a doll book (as mich books generally are). . . . But I found Law quite an over-match for me; and this...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1925 - 1322 pages
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The Three Religious Leaders of Oxford and Their Movements: John Wycliffe ...

Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1916 - 634 pages
...religion, . . . 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 Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, UH such books generally are, and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me...
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In the Mountains

Elizabeth Von Arnim - 1920 - 306 pages
...felt how thin he was, said of the "Serious Call" that he took it up expecting it to be a dull book, and perhaps to laugh at it — "But I found Law quite an overmatch for me." He certainly would be an overmatch for me, I knew, should I try to stand up to him, but that was not...
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Catalogue Descriptive Or a Collection of Books and Armorial Bindings of ...

Pearson, London, firm, booksellers - 1924 - 232 pages
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The Age of Pope (1700-1744)

John Dennis - 1924 - 280 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.'...
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Early English Books from the Huth, the Hoe, the Britwell and Other Famous ...

William H. Robinson, Ltd - 1928 - 226 pages
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The Age of Pope: (1700-1744)

John Dennis - 1928 - 280 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.'...
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