 | Friedrich Arndt - 1861 - 454 sidor
...to be "taken for granted," as it was in the days of Butler, " 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." * The infidelity however of Butler's times, laboured under one great disadvantage, from which that... | |
 | Charles Harris - 1914 - 668 sidor
...Butler, "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...and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal 114 PERSISTENCY OF RELIGION subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its... | |
 | Alfred Hall - 1915 - 260 sidor
...: — ' 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...age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment.'1 Butler's own intellectual acumen, especially the power with which he substantiated his... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1916 - 634 sidor
...Butler 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,...be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of... | |
 | Robert Leonard Tucker - 1918 - 194 sidor
...know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much a subject for inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered...point among all people of discernment; and nothing ** Eight Charges, ed. 4, 1790 — quoted in Jackson : Cent, of Wes. Meth., pp. 18-19. " Pastoral Letter,... | |
 | David Baines-Griffiths - 1919 - 168 sidor
...to say : 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...principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. The social and religious conditions... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1921 - 468 sidor
...Butler described at the close of the last century, has led people of discernment to set up religion "as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisal for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." The preacher who takes that... | |
 | Charles Gore - 1921 - 376 sidor
...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....the present age, this were an agreed point among all persons of discernment ; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
