 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1740 - 488 pages
...any Degree of Inftruction from it, and any Degree of Evidence of its Truth, would have the fame : or whether the Scheme would be revealed at once, or unfolded...it were to have been expected, that the Revelation fhould have been committed to Writing; or left to be handed down, and confequently corrupted by verbal... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1765 - 488 pages
...any Degree of Inftruction from it, and any Degree of Evidence of its Truth, would have the fame : or whether the Scheme would be revealed at once, or unfolded gradually. Nay we are not in any fort able to judge, whether it were to have been expected, that the Revelation fhould have been committed... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...any degree of instruction from it, and any degree of evidence of its truth, would have the same : or whether the scheme would be revealed at once, or unfolded...have been committed to writing ; or left to be handed djown, and consequently corrupted, by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 496 pages
...any degree of instruction from it, and any degree of evidence of its truth, would have the same; or whether the scheme would be revealed at once, or unfolded...and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, * See Chap. 6. and during such time as they are permitted, iu the degree they evidently are, to act... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...any degree of instruction from it, and any degree of evidence of its truth, would have the same : or whether the scheme would be revealed at once, or unfolded...should have been committed to writing; or left to he handed down, and consequently corrupted by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1824 - 478 pages
...any degree of instruction from it, and any degree of evidence of its truth, would have the same; or whether the scheme would be revealed at once, or unfolded...and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased, * See Chap. 6. and during such time as they are permitted, in the degree they evidently are, to act... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 318 pages
...it, with equal clearness and conviction, at the same period, or successively ; or even, whether it should have been committed to writing, or left to...(and, consequently, corrupted) by verbal tradition. For we are in no sort judges beforehand by what laws or rules, in what degrees, or by what means, it... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1828 - 314 pages
...it, with equal clearness and conviction, at the same period, or successively ; or even, whether it should have been committed to writing, or left to...(and, consequently, corrupted) by verbal tradition. For we are in no sort judges beforehand by what laws or rules, in what degrees, or by what means, it... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1828 - 318 pages
...it, with equal clearness and conviction, at the same period, or successively ; or even, whether it should have been committed to writing, or left to be handed down (and, consequently, corf .vied) by verbal tradition. For we are in no sort judges beforehand by what laws or rules, in... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1831 - 458 pages
...power specially communicated, they muat do it by commission, or at least by license. scheme would bo optric telescopes there is an imperfection of this...separated into different colours, thereby tinging ami consequently corrupted, by verbal tradition, and at length sunk under it, if mankind so pleased,... | |
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We are equally ignorant, whether the evidence of it would be certain, or highly probable, or doubtful ;* or whether all who should have any degree of instruction from it, and any degree of evidence of its truth, would have the same ; or whether the scheme... 
