 | David Hume - 1825 - 546 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1825 - 256 pages
...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,... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1826 - 524 pages
...and necessaryconsequence, this general and important maxim ; '•' that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact it endeavours to establish." And even in that case he maintains, that " there is a mutual destruction... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 626 pages
...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 miracu*• Sometimes an event may not, in itself, seem to be contrary to the laws of nature, and yet,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 600 pages
...which respect human conduct:" and in this sense accordingly he uses the word in the very next sentence: "When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more proiaifethat this person should either... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 596 pages
...testimony," says he, " is 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 endeavors to establish :" the term " prodigy" also (which he all along employs as synonymous with "... | |
 | George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 pages
...sufficient to establish the credibility even of a miracle. " No testimony,"' says he, -f-"is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...miraculous than 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,... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1827 - 62 pages
...respect human conduct:" and in this sense accordingly he uses the word in the very next sentence: " 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...sufficient to establish the credihility even of a miracle. ' No testimony,' says he, ' is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony Be of such...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... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1829 - 236 pages
...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,... | |
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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. And even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments,... 
