| Several Hands - 1752 - 508 pages
...tefiimony ; and it is the fame experience which affures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, thefe two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but fuhl tract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion, either on the one fide or the other, with... | |
| John Leland - 1755 - 698 pages
...and 'tis the fame experience thatLETTER afiiires us of the laws of nature. When there- m. fore thefc two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do, but to fubftrad the one from the other — And this fubftraftion " with regard to all popular religions... | |
| David Hume - 1760 - 314 pages
...teftimony ; and 'tis the fame experience, which afTures us of the laws of nature. When, theiefore» the/e two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but fuGftract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion, either on one fide or the other, with that... | |
| John Leland - 1764 - 426 pages
...teftimony ; and 'tis the fame experience " that affures us of the laws of nature. When therefore thefe *' two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do, " but to fubftract the one from the other — And this fubftrac" tion with regard to all popular religions... | |
| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pages
...alone which gives authority to human testimony; and the same experience that assures us of the law of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but to subtract the one from the other. And this subtraction, with regard to all popular religions, amounts... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...«It is experience alone which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience that assures us of the laws of nature. When therefore these...experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but; to subtract the one from the other. And this subtraction with regard to all popular religions amounts... | |
| Herbert Marsh - 1812 - 764 pages
...also. " 'Tis experience only" (says Mr. Hume1) " which gives authority to human " testimony : and 'tis the same experience which " assures us of the laws of nature. When there" fore these two kinds of experience are contrary, " we have nothing to do, but to subtract the... | |
| 1853 - 840 pages
...world. Mr. Hume, of course, ascribes it to experience — ' it is experience only which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature;' — but, then, how is this latter experience, in the needed extent, obtained, but by testimony t —... | |
| 1824 - 602 pages
...also. " 'Tis experience only" (says Mr. Hume) " which gives authority to human testimony : and 'tis the same experience which assures us of the laws of...experience are contrary, we have nothing to do, but to subtract the one from the other." Since then experience is against a miracle, whereas experience... | |
| |