 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1819 - 256 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...agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 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,...agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained; but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1820 - 264 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...agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of... | |
 | Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour - 1820 - 326 pages
...affecting description of this, by Bishop Butler, whom none Will suspect of exaggerating the fact:* — " It is come I know not how, to be taken for granted, that christianity is not so much as a subject of enquiry: but that it is, now at length, discovered... | |
 | 1886 - 650 pages
...eighteenth century literature : " It is come to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and,...agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1821 - 616 pages
...that the whole kingdom of England was tending fast to infidelity. " It is come," says bishop Butler, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of enquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and accordingly they treat it... | |
 | John Bristed - 1822 - 524 pages
...Religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature," written in May, 1736, — "it is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is now, at length, discovered... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1823 - 614 pages
...was tending fast to infidelity. " It is come," says bishop Butler, " 1 know Dot how, to be taken tor granted by many persons, that Christianity is not...they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreement among all people ot discernment, and nothing remained but to st-t it up as a principal subject... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1824 - 628 pages
...England was tending fast to infidelity. "It is come," says bishop Butler, "I know not how, to be iaken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of enquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious; and accordingly they treat it as... | |
 | 1825 - 806 pages
...lamenting it was then ' taken for granted that Christianity was not so much as a subject of inquiry ; and accordingly they treat it as if, in the present...age, this were an agreed point among all people of discern¡ ment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule,... | |
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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. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were... 
