 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1922 - 430 sidor
...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." "I suppose it will be granted," says Swift, "that hardly one in a hundred among our people of quality... | |
 | Albert Edward Baker - 1923 - 150 sidor
...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...fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it as if . . . nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule. 1 Voltaire said... | |
 | Edward Summerfield Ninde - 1924 - 262 sidor
...declared that "it had come to be taken for granted that Christianity is not so much as a subject for inquiry; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious" ; and such was the religious indifference that no one cared. On his return to France in 1731, after two years... | |
 | Mahlon Ellsworth Olsen - 1925 - 778 sidor
...by many persons that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at langth discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they...among all people of discernment, and nothing remained hut to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were, by way of reprisals for... | |
 | 1904 - 626 sidor
...the preface : " 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...fictitious ; and, accordingly, they treat it as if nothing remained but to set it up as a subject of mirth and ridicule as it were, by way of reprisals... | |
 | Ernest Harold Pearce (Bp. of Worcester) - 1926 - 382 sidor
...was come " 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." Stillingfleet, like Butler, had his practical side. He told the Worcestershire clergy that he should... | |
 | Frank Knight Chaplin - 1927 - 184 sidor
...granted by many persons that Christianity was not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it was now at length discovered to be fictitious. "And accordingly they treat it as if in the present age this were agreed among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject... | |
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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. 
