 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...more virtue than old ' ' When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable...should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened.' Hume's Essay on Miracles, Part i. See post, Sept. 22,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...more virtue than old 1 ' When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable...should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened.' Hume's Essay on Miracles, Part i. See post, Sept. 22,... | |
 | David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...deducting the inferior." When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable,...should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other ; and" accord•... | |
 | George Campbell - Church history - 1807 - 530 pages
...means. " When any one," says he, " 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 de" ceived, or that the fact he relates, should really have hap" pened. I weigh the one miracle against... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...««deducting the inferior." When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, 1 immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable,...should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...it endeavours to establish. When one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that...should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other ; and according... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pages
...endeavours to establish — When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable,...should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other, and according... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 880 pages
...it endeavours to establish. When one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more, probable...should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happen« d. I weigh the one miracle against the other ; and according... | |
 | George Campbell - Church of Scotland - 1823 - 590 pages
...to life, I immediately consider with my- ' ' self, whether it be more probable, that this per' son should either deceive or be deceived, or that ' the fact he relates, should really have happen' ed. I weigh the one miracle against the other ; ' and according to the superiority which I... | |
 | Great Britain - 1826 - 1138 pages
...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...should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other." Hume's Essay... | |
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When anyone 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. 
