 | 1846 - 1028 страница
...: ' 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...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... | |
 | James Spencer Northcote - 1846 - 156 страница
...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,... | |
 | T. Timpson - 1847 - 714 страница
...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...by many 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,... | |
 | 1847 - 698 страница
...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...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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, George Peck - 1847 - 368 страница
...in the very extreme of decline. " It has come to be taken for granted that Christianity is no longer a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly it is treated as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all persons of discernment,... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1848 - 632 страница
...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,...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... | |
 | 1849 - 600 страница
...characteristic but 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 it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. . . . On ' the contrary, thus much at least will here be found, not taken ' for granted, but proved,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1849 - 602 страница
...1783. f Calamy 's Life and Times, vol. ii. p. 531. 1 [Bishop Butler, writing in the year 1736. says: "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... | |
 | Author of Your place in Church is empty - 1849 - 1074 страница
...state into which we are unhappily fallen." And about twenty years later, Bishop Butler writes : — " 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... | |
 | 1849 - 380 страница
...in the very extreme of decline. " It has come to be taken for granted that Christianity is no longer a subject of inquiry; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly it is treated as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all persons of discernment,... | |
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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... 
