 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...Gibbon : " Law's master-work, the Serious Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the...of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La En-mere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...AND HEAD TILL YOU LOVE TO READ. PHAY but they are founded on the Gospel: h;» satire is sharp, hut it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not umVorthy of the prri of LA BRUYERE. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...Mr. Law's master-work, the Serious Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts- are rigid, but they are founded on the...it is drawn from the knowledge of human life; and c 3 many many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 552 pages
...Mr. Law's masterwork, the 1 Serious Call,' is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the...spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that lie exposes, with equal severity and truth,... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 558 pages
...Mr. Law's masterwork, the ' Serious Call,' is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the...spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 558 pages
...Mr. Law's masterwork, the ' Serious Call,' is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the...spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth,... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1815 - 872 pages
...Mr. Law's masterwork, the "Serious Call," is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the...life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his Reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...Mr. Law's master-work, the Serious Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel: his satire is sharp, but it is drawn fmm the knowledge of human life; and many of his portraits are nut unworthy of the pen of La Bruyère.... | |
 | William Law - Christian life - 1821 - 308 pages
...are rigid, but they are formed and derived from the Gospel ; his satire is sharp, but his wisdom is from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his Portraits are not unworthy the pen of La Bruyere. If there yet exists a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...Mr Law's master-work, the ' Serious Call', is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the...spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth,... | |
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Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel : his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen... 
