 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 - Side 1621840Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1840 - 526 sider
...enquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and accordingly they treat it ns 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, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted... | |
 | Edward Morgan - 1840 - 396 sider
...many persons, that christianity is not so much as a subject for enquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious : and accordingly they treat it as if in the present * Hanes Brydain t'uwr, 567, 568. age this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1856 - 652 sider
...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 long interrupted the... | |
 | 1843 - 1056 sider
...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... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1843 - 358 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
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