 | John Farrelly - Religion - 1997 - 354 pages
...believe in the gnspels." and only a few years later, in 1736, Bishop Butler sardonically reported, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...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 as... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 pages
...Constitution and Course of Nature.1 In the preface or 'advertisement' to this book Butler remarks that 'it is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of... | |
 | Isabel Rivers - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 407 pages
...Constitution and Course of Nature (l736). S7 His Advertisement made clear the occasion of his work: It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way... | |
 | Herbert Schlossberg - History - 2000 - 420 pages
...Bishop Butler in the Advertisement to the first edition of his Analogy of Religion, published in 1736: It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is, not at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age,... | |
 | Victor Shea, William Whitla - History - 2000 - 1092 pages
...Private Thoughts, 1709. )175 Thirty years later Butler writes, that 'it is come to be taken for granted that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is now, at length, discovered to be f1ctitious. Accordingly they treat it as if in the present age this were an agreed point among all... | |
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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... 
