 | Joseph Butler - 1839 - 362 sidor
...thought, and purity of morals. So that in the language of Butler, " it had come to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of investigation, but that it is now at length, discovered to be fictitious, and accordingly they treat... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 590 sidor
...congregations."* f 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...were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 592 sidor
...congregations."* f 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...were an agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by... | |
 | 1840 - 530 sidor
...1752, has the following decisive language : " 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 now at length it is discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it, as if, in the present... | |
 | 1840 - 1078 sidor
...1 752, has the following decisive language : " 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 now at length it is discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it, as if, in the present... | |
 | 1840 - 526 sidor
...visible." Bishop Butler, in 1736, observes : — " It is come, I know not how, to he taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of enquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and accordingly they treat it ns... | |
 | Edward Morgan - 1840 - 396 sidor
...verging to infidelity. " It has come," says bishop Butler, " I know not how, to 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 : and accordingly they treat... | |
 | 1856 - 652 sidor
...could write, in the preface to his Analogy, " It has come, Iknow not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much...were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, by way of reprisals... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1856 - 652 sidor
...could write, in the preface to his Analogy, "It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much...were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, by way of reprisals... | |
 | 1843 - 1056 sidor
...wrote in the advertisement to the " Analogy," " It is come,' I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much...were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way... | |
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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... 
