 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1740 - 488 sidor
...comparing and purfuing, Intimations fcattcred up and down it, which are overlooked and difregarded by the Generality of the World. For this is the Way,...in which all Improvements are made; by thoughtful Metis tracing on ob- CHAP. fcure Hints, as it were, dropped us by Na- III. ture accidentally, or which... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 496 sidor
...the same way as na-1 tural knowledge is come at; by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing,...in which all improvements are made; by thoughtful men tracing on obscure hints, as it were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 sidor
...in the same way as natural knowledge is come at; by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing,...in which all improvements are made; by thoughtful men tracing on obscure hints, as it were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1824 - 484 sidor
...in the same way as natural knowledge is come at : by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty; and by particular persons attending to, comparing...is the way, in which all improvements are made ; by thought*Heh. vi. 1. i Acts iii. 21. ful men's tracing on obscure hints, as it were, dropped us by nature... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1824 - 478 sidor
...in the same way as natural knowledge is come at; by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing,...and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by th6 generality of the world. For this is the way in which all improvements are made; by thoughtful... | |
 | 1834 - 588 sidor
...in the same way as natural knowledge is come at ; by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing,...in which all improvements are made ; by thoughtful men tracing on obscure hints, as it were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1834 - 388 sidor
...continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particu1 Heb. vi. 1. 2 Acts iii. 21. lar persons attending to, comparing, and pursuing, intimations...in which all improvements are made ; by thoughtful men tracing on obscure hints, as it were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come... | |
 | John Fry - 1835 - 508 sidor
...expositors, and according to Bishop Butler's description of the progress of divine knowledge — " by particular persons attending to, comparing, and pursuing intimations scattered up and down in scriptures," a conclusion has been come to, that these " times" are a definite period ; and, that... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 sidor
...in the same way as natural knowledge is come at—by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing,...in which all improvements are made; by thoughtful men tracing on obscure hints, as it were dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seemed to come... | |
 | Augustus Clissold - 1839 - 260 sidor
...the same way as natural knowledge is come at, — by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing,...overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world." ( Butler's Analogy, Part 2, chap, iii.) " ' may admit it to be a final revelation ; but if by this... | |
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Scripture is not yet understood, so, if it ever comes to be understood, before the 'restitution of all things,' and without miraculous interpositions, it must be in the same way as natural knowledge is come at, by the continuance and progress of learning... 
