 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...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 miracu* Sometimes an event may not, in itself, teem to be contrary to the laws of nature, and yet,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 596 pages
...law of nature," plainly shows that he meant tu include human nature : no 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 :"... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...would be sufficient to establish the credihility even of a miracle. ' No testimony,' says he, ' is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...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... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1829 - 230 pages
...same ; even if we admit the evident absurdity of the terms in which it is couched. No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculotis than the fact which it endeavours to establish. Such is Mr. Hume's conclusion from his... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1829 - 236 pages
...propose, is, to 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,... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1832 - 270 pages
...propose, is to 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 endeavors to establish. The ground of objection to the word, miraculous,... | |
 | George Hill - 1833 - 604 pages
...words of Mr. Hume, although he certainly did not mean them to be so applied : .. " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." The falsehood of the testimony of the apostles would be more miraculous, ie it is more improbable than... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 594 pages
...as the world endures.' And the argument thus ostentatiously produced is, — ' That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.' — Essays, vol. ii. p. 123. In reply — we must begin by observing Mr. Hume's total omission of the... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...as the world endures.' And the argument thus ostentatiously produced is, — ' Tluit no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous them the fact which it endeavours to establish.' — Essays, vol. ii. p. 123. In reply — we must... | |
 | 1835 - 612 pages
...improbability.* Had it been told of some distant country, at a remote mm nature: no 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 :"... | |
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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. 
