 | Robert Philip - 1838 - 678 σελίδες
...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...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Bishop Butler s Analogy. So much was this the character of the after-dinner conversations at Oxford,... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 σελίδες
...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...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the contrary, thus much, at least, will be here found, not taken for granted, but proved, that any... | |
 | Robert Philip - 1838 - 566 σελίδες
...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...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Bishop Butlers Analogy. So much was this the character of the after-dinner conversations at Oxford,... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1838 - 1574 σελίδες
...age, this were an agreement among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up is a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were,...the world." There is every reason to believe that the Methodists were the instruments of stemming this torrent Ton sick and the poor aUo tasted the fruits... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1839 - 190 σελίδες
...accordingly-, they treat it, as if, in the present age, this mere an agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained, but to set...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." t • Pastoral letters, p. 2, Second Edition. t Advertisement prefixed to the Analogy, first puHished... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1839 - 312 σελίδες
...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...its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world."f • Pastoral Letters, p. 2, second edition. ARCHBISHOP SECKER, 1738. " Men have always complained... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1839 - 362 σελίδες
...this were an agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained, but to set it up us a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the contrary, thus much, at least, will be hero found, not taken for granted, but proved, that any... | |
 | John Hoppus - 1839 - 634 σελίδες
...among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to hold it up to ridicule, ' by way of taking reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.' continually assailed by direct attack ; as well as exposed to all the contingencies arising from the... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 590 σελίδες
...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...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." We may well estimate the force of this passage, by considering how impossible it would be for any observer... | |
 | 1840 - 526 σελίδες
...and accordingly they treat it ns if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Two years later, Archbishop Seeker writes: — " An open and professed disregard to religion is become,... | |
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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... 
