| 1878 - 876 pages
...when tie said, that " it had come to be taken for granted that Christianity is no longer a subject for inquiry, but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious ;" and he wrote his great work for the purpose of arguing the reasonableness of the Christian religion even... | |
| Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...than that in which Bishop Butler, in the preface to his great defence of revealed religion, remarks, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is before we adopt any opinion or assertion of Bolingbroke's, is to consider whether in writing it he... | |
| Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...than that in which Bishop Butler, in the preface to his great defence of revealed religion, remarks, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is before we adopt any opinion or assertion of Bolingbroke's, ia to consider whether in writing it he... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Mental illness - 1856 - 438 pages
...prefatory advertisement to that profound and powerful work he was constrained to write as follows : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age,this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up... | |
| D. W. Clark - 1856 - 450 pages
...skepticism was almost universal. Bishop Butler, in the preface to his Analogy, dated 1786, remarks: " 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... | |
| Young Men's Christian Association (England) - Religion and culture - 1856 - 456 pages
...skepticism was almost universal. Bishop Butler, in the preface to his Analogy, dated 1786, remarks : " 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... | |
| James Buchanan - Atheism - 1857 - 436 pages
...we are only following the footsteps of the profound author of the "Analogy," who finding it, he knew not how, " to be taken for granted, by many persons,...Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry," set himself, in the first instance, to prove " that it is not, however, so clear a case that there... | |
| James Buchanan - Atheism - 1857 - 442 pages
...we are only following the footsteps of the profound author of the "Analogy," who finding it, he knew not how, " to be taken for granted, by many persons,...Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry," set himself, in the first instance, to prove " that it is not, however, so clear a case that there... | |
| James Buchanan - Atheism - 1857 - 444 pages
...we are only following the footsteps of the profound author of the "Analogy," who finding it, he knew not how, " to be taken for granted, by many persons,...Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry," set himself, in the first instance, to prove " that it is not, however, so clear a case that there... | |
| 1857 - 380 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... | |
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