 | Joseph Butler - 1839 - 362 pages
...philosophy, patient thought, and purity of morals. So that in the language of Butler, " it had come to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of investigation, but that it is now at length, discovered to be fictitious, and accordingly they treat... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that now at length it is discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it, as if, in the present... | |
 | 1840 - 530 pages
...some three and twenty years. Bishop Butler, who died in 1752, has the following decisive language : " It is come, I know not how, to be. taken for granted...is not. so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that now at length it is discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it, as if, in the present... | |
 | Edward Morgan - 1840 - 396 pages
...said that the whole kingdom was rapidly verging to infidelity. " It has 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 for enquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious : and accordingly they treat... | |
 | 1840 - 526 pages
...of it, was very visible." Bishop Butler, in 1736, observes : — " It is come, I know not how, to he 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 ns... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 1843 - 1056 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...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... | |
 | 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...agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, by way of reprisals... | |
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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... 
