 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...  English Literature in the Eighteenth Century - Página 50por Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 158 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Joseph Butler - 1839 - 362 páginas
...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 - 590 páginas
...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...the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule,... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 592 páginas
...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...the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule,... | |
 | 1840 - 530 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 1078 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edward Morgan - 1840 - 396 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule,... | |
 | 1843 - 1056 páginas
...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...the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1856 - 652 páginas
...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...the present age this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule,... | |
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