Evidence: | '[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London-based priest friend of Johnson] He much commended Law's "Serious Call", which he said was the finest piece of hortatory theology in any language. "Law, (said he) fell latterly into the reveries of Jacob Behmen, whom Law alledged to have been somewhat in the same state with St. Paul, and to have seen [italics] unutterable things [end italics]. Were it even so, (said Johnson,) Jacob would have resembled St. Paul still more, by not attempting to utter them."' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 31 Dec 1770 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Samuel Johnson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 18 Sep 1709 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | William Law |
Title: | Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life |
Genre: | Other religious |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21095 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R.C. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 440 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R.C. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 440, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21095, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Originally published 1791. |
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