 | David Hume - 1817 - 540 pages
...deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other ; and according to the superiority which...event which he relates ; then, and not till then, can lie pretend to command my belief or opinion. PART II. IN the foregoing reasoning we have supposed,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 880 pages
...deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happen« d. I weigh the one miracle against the other ; and according to the superiority which...decision, and always reject the greater miracle." In this passage every reader may remark what did not escape the perspicacious eye of Dr Campbell, a... | |
 | George Campbell - Church of Scotland - 1823 - 590 pages
...inverse ratio of the quantity of miracle there is in it. ' I 'weigh,' says he, ' the one miracle against the ' other, and according to the superiority which...I ' discover, I pronounce my decision, and always re' ject the greater miracle *.' Now, of this method, which will no doubt be thought by many to be... | |
 | George Campbell - Miracles - 1824 - 396 pages
...deceived, or that the fact he relates, 'should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle ' against the other; and according to the superiority which...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the great' er miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more ' miraculous than the event which... | |
 | David Hume - English essays - 1825 - 546 pages
...fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle • See NOTE IK.: against the other ; and according to the superiority which...falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than tin- event which he relates ; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I. weigh the one miracle against the other ; and according to the superiority which...falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous v than the event which he relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or... | |
 | George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 pages
...have happened. I weigh the one miru-'.e iuriinst the other, and, according to the superiority which 1 discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject...then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my beKrfor opinion." There is some inaccuracy of language in talking of greater and less miracles when... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other, and, according to the superiority which...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. 'There is some inaccuracy of language in talking of greater and less miracles when omnipotence is supposed... | |
 | 1831 - 524 pages
...deceived, or that the fact he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other, and according to the superiority which...decision, and always reject the greater miracle." In perfect accordance with this axiom, the magazines, the Record, and we regret to be obliged to include... | |
 | John Leland - Apologetics - 1837 - 784 pages
...deceived, or that the fact he relates should really have happened ; I weigh the one miracle against the other, and, according to the superiority which...decision, and always reject the greater miracle.''* You cannot but observe here, this writer's jingle upon the word miracle. As he had talked of proof... | |
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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 deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh... 
