...among all people ot discernment, and nothing remained but to st-t it up as a principal subject «f mirth and ridicule, as it were, by way of reprisals...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." There is every reason to believe that the Methodists were the "instruments ot stemming this torrent....

...fictitious; and accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreement among all peo pie m." See PRUDKNCE. DISDAIN, contempt, as unworthy of...opinion we have of ourselves; disdain on the low op There is every reason to believe that the Methodists were the instruments of stemming this torrent....

...I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much an object of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.* Archhishop Seeker, in his Sermons, (Vol. 1. p. 59.) says, perhaps about 1758, ' It is a reproach I...

...affecting description of this, by Bishop Butler, whom none will suspect of exaggerating the fact : " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted....having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." While pure and undented religion was thus well nigh extinct in England, and fast becoming so in Scotland,...

...However, the proper force of the following treatise lies in the whole general analogy considered together It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. On the con' trary, thus much, at least, will be here found, not taken for granted, but proved, that...

...inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as b if, in the present age, this were an agreed point...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...

...present age, this were a great point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained but lo set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.' " Dr. Haweis, in his ' Impartial Church History,' testifies, ' Between contests for power, thirst for...

...point among all people ment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth le; as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted ll.e of the world.' iweis, in his ' Impartial Church History,' testifies, ' Between contests for rst...

...people of discernment ; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject ot mirth aiid ridicule ; as it were by way of reprisals for its...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." While pure and undented religion was thus well nigh extinct in England, and fast becoming so in Scotland,...

...the age was chiselled by that moral Phidias, BUTLER, they seem to have furnished the model : — " It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." Bishop Butlers Analogy. So much was this the character of the after-dinner conversations at Oxford,...