...disciples, and consequently in the very age in which the facts there related were done, and when therefore it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have convicted them of falsehood, if they had not been true."* " Who can forbear," says the devout Doddridge,...

...they were written in the very age in which the facts there related were done, and when, therefore, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have convicted them of falsehood if they had not been true.' And, finally, to adopt also the words of Lardner,...

...And the accounts were published in the very age in which those facts were said to be done, and when it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have detected and contradicted them if they had not been true. And indeed, never were there, all things...

...And the accounts were published in the very age in which those facts were said to be done, and when it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have detected and contradicted them if they had not been true. And indeed, never were there, all things...

...by their own prejudices to oppose it ; and this at the very time when, if the facts had been false, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have detected the falsehood, which in that case must have been * Philosophical Essays, p. 203. known to...

...they were written in the very age in which the facts there related were done, and when, therefore, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have convicted them of falsehood if they had not been true. " Who can forbear," says the pious Doddridge,...

...sea in his day, as he many a time afterward told us. At this moment, we were all alone with him ; and it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have given him the slip ; but he seemed to have no idea of such a thing ; treating us so frankly and cordially,...

...the governor is proconsul (deputy), and Luke is again correct ! And how wonderfully exact, too ! for it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have been wrong, amid so many political changes. Here also note that, if the work of Suetonius had perished,...

...in his day, as he many a time afterwards told us. At this moment, we were all alone with him ; and it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have given him the slip ; but he seemed to have no idea of such a thing ; treating us so frankly and cordially,...

...friend of Adam Smith during many of his latter years ; and for all that related to him previously, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to have collected information and anecdote in the society of Edinburgh. If it be one object, as it must be...