| 1840 - 530 sayfa
...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...discernment, and nothing remained, but to set it up as a subject of mirth and ridicule," etc. About the time when Bishop Butler was penning the above ominous... | |
| Edward Morgan - 1840 - 396 sayfa
...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 it as if in the present * Hanes Brydain t'uwr, 567, 568. age this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and... | |
| 1840 - 526 sayfa
...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 if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained... | |
| 1842 - 544 sayfa
...places of the land, and, to use the words of Bishop Butler, " was set up as a principal subject of ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world."t Verily, if we could not without conscientious scruples read the service for the martyrdom... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1843 - 358 sayfa
...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,...principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were oy way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." In times of such... | |
| 1856 - 652 sayfa
...Iknow 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...it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, by way of reprisals for its having so lone interrupted the pleasures of the world." That day has passed... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1856 - 652 sayfa
...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...it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." That clay has passed... | |
| 1861 - 448 sayfa
...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...reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the plea* ' sures of the world.' It was this light and deriding state of th« public mind which evoked... | |
| 1850 - 642 sayfa
...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, thus much at least will here be found, not taken for granted, but proved, that... | |
| Will Jones - 1845 - 720 sayfa
...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 be fictitious ; and accordingly they treat ifc as if in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing... | |
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