 | Joseph Butler - 1869 - 372 pages
...think things to be of little importance, which are of any real weight at all, upon such a subject of religion. However, the proper force of the following...granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not at, much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. Accordingly... | |
 | John Charles Ryle - 1869 - 446 pages
...the following remarkable words: "It has come to be taken for granted that Christianity is no longer a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be 1 6 DEFECTS OF BISHOPS fictitious. And accordingly it is treated as if, in the present age, this were... | |
 | Charles Gore - 1921 - 376 pages
...Butler, in famous words, speaks of the attitude of the fashionable world in his day towards religion. " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...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... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1922 - 430 pages
...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 pages
...inconceivably bad. Bishop Butler, in the advertisement to the first edition of the Analogy, says, ' It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...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 pages
...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 pages
...religion by drawing an analogy between it and the works of nature, sadly says in his opening chapter: " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted 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... | |
 | Ernest Harold Pearce (Bp. of Worcester) - 1926 - 382 pages
...advertisement (May 1736) to the first edition of the " Analogy of Religion," and to realise how it 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,... | |
 | 1904 - 626 pages
...claimed the victory. When Bishop Butler published his " Analogy," in 1736, he says in 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 discovered to be... | |
 | 1869 - 872 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
