Butler, Joseph
Born: May 18, 1692 AD
Died: 1752 AD, at 60 years of age.
Nationality: English
Categories: Bishops, Theologian
Died: 1752 AD, at 60 years of age.
Nationality: English
Categories: Bishops, Theologian
1692 - Born in Wantage on the 18th of May.
1714 - He decided to enter the Church of England, and went to Oxford. After holding various other preferments, he became rector of the rich living of Stanhope.
1736 - He was made the head chaplain of King George II's wife Caroline, on the advice of Lancelot Blackburne.
1738 - He was appointed bishop of Bristol.
1738 - He was appointed bishop of Bristol. He is said to have declined an offer to become the archbishop of Canterbury.
1750 - He became Bishop of Durham.
1726-1736 - He is most famous for his Fifteen Sermons on Human Nature and Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed.
1752 - Died on the 16th of June in Bath, Somerset.
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Field Guide to American Antique Furniture: A Unique Visual System for Identifying the Style of Virtually Any Piece of American Antique Furniture by Joseph T. Butler (Paperback - Nov 15, 1986) With more than seventeen hundred superb drawings, this authoritative book offers a unique visual system for identifying the style of virtually any piece of American antique furniture...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Candleholders in America, 1650-1900;: A comprehensive collection of American and European candle fixtures used in America by Joseph T Butler (Hardcover - Sep 8, 1967) |
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Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature by Joseph Butler (Paperback - Jul 8, 2003) 1736. If the reader should meet here with anything which he had not before attended to, it will not be in the observations upon the constitution and course of nature, these being all obvious; but in... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The analogy of religion (Milestones of thought in the history of ideas) by Joseph Butler (Unknown Binding - Sep 8, 1961) I express myself with caution, lest I should be mistaken to vilify reason; which is indeed the only faculty we have wherewith to judge concerning anything. -from The Analogy of Religion Elegantly... |
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