 | David Hume - 1804 - 552 σελίδες
...if the spirit of religion join itself to the love or wonder, there is an end of common sense ; and human testimony, in these circumstances, loses all...the world, for the sake of promoting so holy a cause : Or even where this delusion has not place, vanity, excited by so strong a temptation, operates on... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 294 σελίδες
...easily, says the author. Those original propagators of the gospel have been deceived themselves ; for, " a religionist may be an " enthusiast, and imagine he sees what has " no reality."* Were this admitted, it would not, in the present case, remove the difficulty. He must not only himself... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 530 σελίδες
...easily, says the author. Those original propagators of the gospel have been deceived themselves ; for " a religionist may be an enthusiast, " and imagine he sees what has no reality*." ' Were this admitted, it would not in the present case, remove the difficulty. He must not only himself... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 σελίδες
...But if the spirit of religion join itself to the love of wonder, there is an end of common sense; and human testimony, in these circumstances, loses all...intentions in the world, for the sake of promoting so hoty a cause : Or even where this delusion has not place, vanity, excited by so strong a temptation,... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 540 σελίδες
...But if the spirit of religion join itself to the love of wonder, there is an end of common sense; and human testimony, in these circumstances, loses all...to be false, and yet persevere in it, with the best intention* in the world, for the sake of promoting so holy a cause: Or even where this delusion has... | |
 | George Campbell - 1823 - 590 σελίδες
...easily, says the author. Those original propagators of the gospel have been deceived themselves ; for ' a ' religionist may be an enthusiast, and imagine he ' sees what has no reality *.' Were this admitted, it would not, in the present case, remove the difficulty. He must not only... | |
 | George Campbell - 1824 - 396 σελίδες
...incited to deceive the rest of mankind. The religionist, rejoins the author, ' may know his narration to be false, and ' yet persevere in it, with the best...world, for ' the sake of promoting so holy a cause *.' Our religion, to use its own nervous language, teaches us f, that we ought not to lie, or speak... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 σελίδες
...human testimony, in Uiese circumstances, loses all pretensions to authority. A religionist may be on enthusiast, and imagine he sees what has no reality...the world, for the sake of promoting so holy a cause : Or even where this delusion has not place, . vanity, excited by so strong a temptation, operates... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 546 σελίδες
...But if the spirit of religion join itself to the love of wonder, there is an end of common sense; and human testimony, in these circumstances, loses all...his narrative to be false, and yet persevere in it, vith the best intentions in the world, for the sake of promoting so holy a cause : Or even where this... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 σελίδες
...But if the spirit of religion join itself to the love of wonder, there is an end of common sense; and human testimony, in these circumstances, loses all...the world, for the sake of promoting so holy a cause : Or even where this delusion has not place, vanity, excited by so strong a temptation, operates on... | |
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A religionist may be an enthusiast, and imagine he sees what has no reality : He may know his narrative to be false, and yet persevere in it, with... 
