 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - Sermons, English - 1844 - 414 pages
...length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment ;...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... | |
 | India - 1861 - 448 pages
...length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they ' treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point ' among all people of discernment,...reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the plea* ' sures of the world.' It was this light and deriding state of th« public mind which evoked... | |
 | Will Jones - Clergy - 1845 - 720 pages
...length, discovered to be fictitious ; and accordingly they treat ifc as if in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and...it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, and as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.*... | |
 | Christianity - 1846 - 1028 pages
...an agreed point among all people of dis' Gladstone's Church Principlei, pp. 452. 153. écriraient ; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal...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... | |
 | James Spencer Northcote - Nicene Creed - 1846 - 156 pages
...length discovered to be fictitious; and, accordingly, they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and...up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule." After this confession, we are not surprised to hear that Leland and other writers " abundantly prove,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 698 pages
...length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if in the present age this were an agreed point among all people of discernment ;...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Then follows his profound and immortal work on the analogy of religion to the constitution and course... | |
 | T. Timpson - Great Britain - 1847 - 714 pages
...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...subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisal, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." " From all the accounts that... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Apologetics - 1848 - 632 pages
...length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and...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... | |
 | Author of Your place in Church is empty - Church attendance - 1849 - 1074 pages
...length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment ;...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." And in 1 738, Archbishop Seeker says : — " An open and professed disregard to religion is become,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1849 - 602 pages
...same time wo living in the Church of Kt age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernd, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule. sals. for its having so lung interrupted the pleasure of the ted May 1730. preftxed to the first edition... | |
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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... 
