| 1856 - 652 pages
...much more than a hundred years ago, could write, in the preface to his Analogy, " It has come, Iknow not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons,...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... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1843 - 358 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... | |
| 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,...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... | |
| 1861 - 448 pages
...Christianity, through the wide realms of Christendom. 'It ' has come/ wrote Bishop Butler in 1736, 'I know not how, ' to be taken for granted, by many...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... | |
| 1850 - 642 pages
...characteristic hut deeply satirical simplicity, in the preface to his great work : — " It is come," says he, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so much a suhject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. * * * On the contrary,... | |
| Will Jones - 1845 - 720 pages
...Bishop Butler, in the Preface to his "Analogy," 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 a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to... | |
| 1846 - 1028 pages
...: ' That profaneness and impiety are grown bold and open.' " ' " Bishop Butler writes, in 1736 : ' It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...age, this were an agreed point among all people of dis' Gladstone's Church Principlei, pp. 452. 153. écriraient ; and nothing remained, but to set it... | |
| James Spencer Northcote - 1846 - 156 pages
...least among the higher classes. Bishop Butler says of the state of things in his own time, " it is come to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a matter of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious; and, accordingly, they... | |
| 1847 - 698 pages
...appeared at a critical pertod in the eighteenth century, when, as lîishop Butler said in his "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... | |
| T. Timpson - 1847 - 714 pages
...Bishop Butler, in the preface to his invaluable "Analogy of Religion," published in l736, says — " It is come, I .know not how, to be taken for granted...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject for inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and, accordingly, they treat... | |
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