 | Edward Gibbon - English letters - 1796 - 520 pages
...morality as well as religion muft join in his applaufe. Mr. Law's mafter-work, the Serious Cail, is ftill read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gofpel : his fetire is fharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...morality as well as religion muft join in his applaufe. Mr. Law's mafter-work, the Serious Call, i$ ftill read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on thegofpel: his fatire is (harp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life; and many of his portraits... | |
 | English literature - 1796 - 746 pages
...as well as religion, muft join in his applaufe. Mr. Law's matter- work, the Serioui Gall, is ftill read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded en the gofpel: his fatire is marp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his... | |
 | 1796 - 816 pages
...book of devption. His precepts arc rigid, b« they are founded on the gofpel : his.fatire is (harp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits arc not unworrhy of the pen of La Bruyère. If he finds a fpark *f piety in his reader's mind, he will... | |
 | 1798 - 432 pages
...abominable words as no Chriftian ear can endure to hear." MR. Law's mafter-work, the Serious Call, is ftill read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded upon the gofpel ; his fatire is fharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life, and many of... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...and an unqueftionable judge of literary Bierit. " Mr. LAW'S mafter-work, the Serious Cull, is ftill read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the Gofpel; his fatire is (harp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1807 - 684 pages
...rational and just views of Christian duties will warrant. " 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 Bruyère." Besides these pieces, he published " Three Letters to the Bishop of Bangor,"8vo.... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...book has extorted the following eulogium even from the sceptical Gibbon : " Law's master-work, the Serious Call, is still read as a popular and powerful...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
...Historians of the present age, and an unquestionable jutige of literary merit. " Mr. LAW'S master-work^ the Serious Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid daily upon your ktiees \\ilJi fervent prayer for divine illumination; and rest not, till yon have imbibed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...public benefits, and morality as well as religion must join in his applause. Mr. Law's master-work, the Serious Call, is still read as a popular and powerful...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... | |
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Bees, he drew his pen against the licentious doctrine that private vices are public benefits, and morality as well as religion must join in his applause. Mr. Law's master-work, the Serious Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion.... 
