| Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 600 σελίδες
...a law of nature," plainly shows that he meant to include human nature : no testimony," says he, 'Us sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavgrs to establish :"... | |
| George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 σελίδες
...would be sufficient to establish the credibility even of a miracle. " No testimony,"' says he, -f-"is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...the fact which it endeavours to establish. — When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 σελίδες
...in which, were it ever to occur, testimony would be sufficient to establish the credihility even of a miracle. ' No testimony,' says he, ' is sufficient...that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the tact which it endeavours to establish. — When any one tells me, that he saw • i dead man restored... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1829 - 230 σελίδες
...the same ; even if we admit the evident absurdity of the terms in which it is couched. No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculotis than the fact which it endeavours to establish. Such is Mr. Hume's conclusion from his... | |
| Archibald Alexander - 1829 - 236 σελίδες
...propose, is, to substitute the word improbable for miraculous. And it will then read, no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more improbable than the fact which it endeavours to establish. The ground of objection to the word miraculous,... | |
| James Douglas - 1831 - 264 σελίδες
...the following, which he calls " a general maxim, worthy of our attention :" — " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish ; and, even in that case, there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the... | |
| Archibald Alexander - 1832 - 270 σελίδες
...propose, is to substitute the word improbable, for miraculous. And it will then read, No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more improbable, than the fact which it endeavors to establish. The ground of objection to the word, miraculous,... | |
| George Hill - 1833 - 604 σελίδες
...the words of Mr. Hume, although he certainly did not mean them to be so applied : .. " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." The falsehood of the testimony of the apostles would be more miraculous, ie it is more improbable than... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 594 σελίδες
...long as the world endures.' And the argument thus ostentatiously produced is, — ' That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.' — Essays, vol. ii. p. 123. In reply — we must begin by observing Mr. Hume's total omission of the... | |
| 1835 - 616 σελίδες
...long as the world endures.' And the argument thus ostentatiously produced is, — ' Tluit no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous them the fact which it endeavours to establish.' — Essays, vol. ii. p. 123. In reply — we must... | |
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