Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Law William

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799	at home all day [...] at Oaks I met with Mr Laws practical discourse on christian perfection [...] I am now reading it	James Clegg	William Law	A Practical Traetise Upon Christain Perfection	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig...	Henry Maynard	William Law		Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Law	A serious call to a devout and holy life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh ...	James Hogg	William Laidlaw	'Sagacity of a Shepherd's Dog'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'"When at Oxford, I took up Law's "Serious Call to a Holy Life", expecting to find it a dull book (as such books gener...	Samuel Johnson	William Law	Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London-based priest friend of Johnson] He much commended Law's "Serious Call...	Samuel Johnson	William Law	Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Law	Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life	Print: Book