 | 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... | |
 | 1869 - 882 sidor
...had fallen in Kngland. " It is come, I know not how, that Christianity is not so much as a subject rf inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of... | |
 | 1912 - 666 sidor
...lament that ' 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.' Again, in the first part of the nineteenth century, the bloody issue of the French Revolution and its... | |
 | C. John Sommerville - 1992 - 238 sidor
...eighteenth century that "It has come to be taken for granted that Christianity is not so much a subject for inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious." 28 Such quotations, while always ambiguous, could be multiplied endlessly and may even have had a self-fulfilling... | |
 | Richard Sibbes - 1995 - 376 sidor
...words ; eg, ' 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...an agreed point among all people of discernment,' (Preface to ' The Analogy '). (A) ' The whole world was darkened.' This remains matter of debate. The... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 sidor
...remarks that '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...subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisal for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.'2 At the time at which Butler... | |
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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. 
