 | 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...argument and authority. So late as 1736, Bishop Butler 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 as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly... | |
 | 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 844
...Bishop Butler, in the advertisement prefixed to the first edition of his -' Analogy " — " It is come 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... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...However, the proper force of the following Treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together. 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... | |
 | Will Jones - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 720
...have a most affecting description of this, given by Bishop Butler, in the Preface to his "Analogy," whom none will suspect of exaggerating the fact. "...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... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 1028
...1728: 'That profaneness and impiety are grown bold and open.' " * " 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 as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly... | |
 | James Spencer Northcote - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 156
...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,... | |
 | 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 698
...appeared at a critical pertod in the eighteenth century, when, as lîishop Butler said in his "Analogy," " 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... | |
 | T. Timpson - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...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...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 ; and, accordingly,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...1783. f Calamy 's Life and Times, vol. ii. p. 531. 1 [Bishop Butler, writing in the year 1736. 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, now, at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly... | |
 | Author of Your place in Church is empty - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 1074
...state into which we are unhappily fallen." And about twenty years later, Bishop Butler writes :— " 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... | |
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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... 
