 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...  The American Biblical Repository - Página 1621840Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Joseph Butler - 1843 - 358 páginas
...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...discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were oy way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted... | |
 | 1856 - 652 páginas
...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...discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, by way of reprisals for its having so lone interrupted the... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 570 páginas
...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...discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule."* This laxity of faith, and consequent deterioration of morals,... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - 1844 - 414 páginas
...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...discernment ; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted... | |
 | 1861 - 448 páginas
...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...discernment, and nothing remained but to set 'it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were ' by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted... | |
 | Will Jones - 1845 - 720 páginas
...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...discernment; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, and as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long... | |
 | James Spencer Northcote - 1846 - 156 páginas
...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, they...discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule." After this confession, we are not surprised to hear that... | |
 | 1846 - 1028 páginas
...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...age, this were an agreed point among all people of dis' Gladstone's Church Principlei, pp. 452. 153. écriraient ; and nothing remained, but to set it... | |
 | 1847 - 698 páginas
...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...discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted... | |
 | T. Timpson - 1847 - 714 páginas
...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, they treat it as if, in the present age, this were a.great point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal... | |
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