 | George Campbell - 1823 - 590 ページ
...pronounce my decision, and always reject the ' greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testi' mony would be more miraculous than the event ' which he...then, can he ' pretend to command my belief or opinion *.' At first indeed one is ready to exclaim, What a strange . ' * Page 182. revolution is here ! The... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 546 ページ
...always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than tin- event which he relates ; then, and not till then,...command my belief or opinion. PART II. IN the foregoing reasoning we have supposed that the testimony upon which a miracle is founded may possibly amount to... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 626 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates,...command my belief or opinion. PART II. In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony upon which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 ページ
...and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous v than the event which he relates, then, and not till...command my belief or opinion. PART II. In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony upon which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount... | |
 | George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates,...then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my beKrfor opinion." There is some inaccuracy of language in talking of greater and less miracles when... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. 'There is some inaccuracy of language in talking of greater and less miracles when omnipotence is supposed... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1838 - 516 ページ
...discover I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates,...then,' can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. 11. Paley, in his own direct manner, exposes the absurdity of this sophistry. " As Mr Hume," says he,... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1843 - 468 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates,...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion." Nothing can be more justly said than this. As a friend to Christianity, I adopt every word of it. I... | |
 | James Smith - 1843 - 728 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates,...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion." * Mr. Hume's argument in substance is this, " Experience, which in some things is variable, in others... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 ページ
...requisite for that purpose, is as real a miracle, though not so sensible with regard to us. • mony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates,...command my belief or opinion. PART II. In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony upon which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount... | |
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... person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject... 
