 | Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...situation of nature, from and to Eternity ? " If therefore it be admitted with Mr. Hume that " no human testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. And even in that case there is a mutual destruction... | |
 | 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." "The plain consequence is, that no,, testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish. Even then"— David Hume however has no... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...position that they are contrary to experience. " It is," says Mr. Hume, " a maxim worthy of our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish." Hence he asserts, that " the evidence of... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...position that they are contrary to experience. " It is," says Mr. Hume, " a maxim worthy of our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." Hence he asserts, that " the evidence of... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 786
...be. Hume's argument against the credibility of any account of miracles is expressed as follows : " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." A miracle is a deviation from the ordinary... | |
 | George Hill - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 162
...apply to this case the words of Mr Hume, although he certainly did not mean them to be so applied : " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." The falsehood of the testimony of the apostles... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...Hume. The latter lays down his position as ' a 'general maxim' in these terms: — 'That no tes' timony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless ' the...of such a kind that its falsehood ' would be more miraculous than the fact which it ' endeavours to establish ;' and even this maxim is still further... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 286
...Hume. The latter lays down his position as ' a 'general maxim' in these terms: — 'That no tes' timony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless ' the...of such a kind that its falsehood ' would be more miraculous than the fact which it ' endeavours to establish ;' and even this maxim is still further... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...of Hume's argument to be that no testimony is sufficient to establish an improbability, unless that testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more improbable than the occurrence of the fact which it endeavours to establish, it altogether fails to disprove the evidence... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.' * And if so, it is an undeniable consequence that ' no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it would endeavour to establish ; and even in that case there is a mutual... | |
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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... 
