| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...which we shall examine according to the principles of those pretended Christians, not as the word or testimony of God himself, but as the production of a... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...which we shall examine according to the principles of those pretended Christians, not as the word or testimony of God himself, but as the production of a... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...which we shall examine according to the principles of those pretended Christians, not as the word or testimony of God himself, but as the production of a... | |
| John Hepburn Millar - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1903 - 736 pages
...reason. "Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...which we shall examine, according to the principles of those pretended Christians, not as the word or testimony of God Himself, but as the production of a... | |
| John Hepburn Millar - English literature - 1903 - 744 pages
...reason. " Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means...let us confine ourselves to such as we find in the Penlateuch, which we shall examine, according to the principles of those pretended Christians, not... | |
| James Lumsden - Scottish drama - 1903 - 360 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure.' — Hume's Works, vol. iv. pp. 135-153. 1 Must. 5 Woe. 3 Great. 4 Higher uplift and uphold him. ' Discourses,'... | |
| James Orr - 1903 - 268 pages
...p. 9. —religion," he says, " is founded on Faith, not Reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to bear." 1 We may conjecture how much " faith " Hume would be prepared to concede to a system against... | |
| James Lumsden - Scottish poetry - 1905 - 396 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure.' — Hume's Works, vol. iv., pp. 135-153. t Higher uplift and uphold him. ' Discourses,' ' Hist'ries,'... | |
| David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. I- To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles, related in scripture ; and not to lose... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 pages
...reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. . . . the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot... | |
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