 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1843 - 470 páginas
...were something decisive for his view of the question. " 'T is a general maxim worthy of our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact which it endeavours to establish."... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1843 - 72 páginas
...a law of nature," plainly shews that he meant to include human nature : " no testimony," says he, " is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a Nay, there is this additional circumstance which renders the contradiction of Experience more glaring... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1851 - 418 páginas
...position that they are contrary to experience. " It is," says Mr. Hume, " a maxim worthy of our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would ba more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to estabblish."... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 páginas
...destroyed or the miracle rendered credible, but by an op;»-itc proof which is superior." Consequently, "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony be of such kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact which it endeavors to establish."... | |
 | John Kitto - 1852 - 536 páginas
...be true, but not contrary to experience that testimony should be false. " No testimony," he says, " is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." We... | |
 | 1853 - 826 páginas
...describes. Mr. Hume fell into an error of the same kind as that we are now exposing, when he declared " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." This... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 páginas
...which is superior.* The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than- the fact which it endeavors to establish :... | |
 | George Long - 1855 - 368 páginas
...calls a general maxim ; and to add a few words of comment on the latter part of it. The maxim is, " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish :... | |
 | abbé Marie Gabriel - 1857 - 482 páginas
...evidence to make us believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles is, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculo'us than the fact, and that no human testimony can have... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh, Anthony Collins, John Watts, William Harral Johnson - 1858 - 362 páginas
...which is superior. The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention,) ' That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. And... | |
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That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish... 
