 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...  The New Englander - Page 2621856Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Gillies - 1834 - 672 pages
...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. by many persons,...it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule ; as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." While... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1834 - 388 pages
...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,...to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as b if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1834 - 562 pages
...published in 1736. In this is the testimony of bishop Burnet. He sa}'s, ' It is come, I know not how, i for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a sub[uiry : but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious ; and, accor:y treat it as if,... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1835 - 740 pages
...as was lamented by the learned Bishop Butler, in 1736, in the following terms : " 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 enquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly, they treat it as... | |
 | John Gillies - 1837 - 682 pages
...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, by many persons,...nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject ot mirth aiid ridicule ; as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pages
...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,...it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 pages
...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,...it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the... | |
 | Robert Philip - 1838 - 566 pages
...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,...it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Bishop... | |
 | Robert Philip - 1838 - 678 pages
...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,...it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it -were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Bishop... | |
 | John Gillies - 1838 - 728 pages
...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, by many persons,...as if in the present age this were an agreed point among1 all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of... | |
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