 | Daniel Dewar - 1838 - 516 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | James Smith - 1843 - 728 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1843 - 470 pages
...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...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... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pages
...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...reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testi* Sometimes an event may not, in itself, seem to be contrary to the laws of nature, and yet, if... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...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...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - 1857 - 360 pages
...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...miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculons than the event which he relates, then, and not till \\IW, can he pretend to command my belief... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1862 - 204 pages
...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...relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand my belief or opinion." Exactly ; no statement could be more reasonable. Let us proceed, then,... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1862 - 204 pages
...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 de" cision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more... | |
 | 1864 - 644 pages
...assurance which arises from the remainder." Also with regard to testimony about raising the dead, " If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous...relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand my belief or opinion." We need have no fears of the application of these principles to Christian... | |
 | 1864 - 646 pages
...assurance which arises from the remainder." Also with regard to testimony about raising the dead, " If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous...relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand my belief or opinion." We need have no fears of the application of these principles to Christian... | |
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When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh... 
