 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 592 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... | |
 | Edward Morgan - 1840 - 396 σελίδες
...a principal subject for mirth and ridicule, by way of reprisals for its having so long, as it were, interrupted the pleasures of the world."* "There is every reason to believe that the Methodists were instrumental in stemming this torrent. "f No doubt they were. The revival, under... | |
 | 1840 - 530 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 up as a subject of mirth and ridicule," etc. About the time when Bishop Butler was penning the above ominous... | |
 | 1840 - 1078 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 up as a subject of mirth and ridicule," etc. About the time when Bishop Butler was penning the above ominous... | |
 | 1852 - 590 σελίδες
...treated it as if this were an agreed point among all people of discern VOL. 14.— NS D went; and that nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Two philosophers rendered good service to the truth during this period ; Locke, by his publications... | |
 | 1842 - 576 σελίδες
...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 of Charles... | |
 | 1842 - 544 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1843 - 520 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." Meanwhile Providence was preparing an agency destined to exert a marvellous and permanent influence... | |
 | 1843 - 1056 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." Meanwhile Providence was preparing an agency destined to exert a marvellous and permanent influence... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1843 - 358 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...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... | |
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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... 
