 | Robert Philip - 1838 - 678 pages
...statue of the age was chiselled by that moral Phidias, BUTLER, they seem to have furnished the model. " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 pages
...However, the proper force of the following Treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length,... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1839 - 256 pages
...and important concerns of religion in a ludicrous and reproachful manner."* BISHOP BUTLER, 1736. " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length,... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 592 pages
...for the revival of religion in their respective congregations."* f Bishop Butler writes, in 1736 : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 590 pages
...for the revival of religion in their respective congregations."* f Bishop Butler writes, in 1736 : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered... | |
 | 1840 - 1078 pages
...some three and twenty years. Bishop Butler, who died in 1 752, has the following decisive language : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that now at length it is discovered... | |
 | 1843 - 520 pages
...argument and authority. So late as 1736, Bishop Butler wrote in the advertisement to the " Analogy" " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1843 - 358 pages
...However, the proper force of the following treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1856 - 652 pages
...Butler, not much more than a hundred years ago, could write, in the preface to his Analogy, "It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - 1844 - 414 pages
...However, the proper force of the following Treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together. It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length,... | |
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It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. 
