 | 1840 - 1078 pages
...some three and twenty years. Bishop Butler, who died in 1 752, has the following decisive language : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...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 - 530 pages
...some three and twenty years. Bishop Butler, who died in 1752, has the following decisive language : " It is come, I know not how, to be. taken for granted...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... | |
 | Edward Morgan - 1840 - 396 pages
...said that the whole kingdom was rapidly 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... | |
 | 1840 - 526 pages
...of it, was very 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... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1843 - 358 pages
...philosophy, patient 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... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...characteristic hut deeply satirical simplicity, in the preface to his great work : — " It is come," says he, " I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so much a suhject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. * * * On the contrary,... | |
 | Will Jones - 1845 - 722 pages
...Bishop Butler, in the Preface to his "Analogy," whom none will suspect of exaggerating the fact. " 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... | |
 | James Spencer Northcote - 1846 - 158 pages
...least among the higher classes. Bishop Butler says of the state of things in his own time, " it is come to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a matter of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious; and, accordingly, they... | |
 | T. Timpson - 1847 - 714 pages
...Bishop Butler, in the preface to his invaluable "Analogy of Religion," published in l736, says — " It is come, I .know not how, to be taken for granted...persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject for inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and, accordingly, they treat... | |
 | Abel Stevens, George Peck - 1847 - 370 pages
...in the very extreme of decline. " 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 fictitious. And accordingly it is treated as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all persons of discernment,... | |
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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... 
