 | University of Chicago - 1902 - 516 pages
...to lose in the case of their being detected in any falsehood, and, at the same time, attesting facts performed in such a public manner and in so celebrated...world, as to render the detection unavoidable : all these circumstances are requisite to give us a full assurance in the testimony of men." This sentence... | |
 | Marcus Dods - Bible - 1905 - 286 pages
...deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood ; and at the same time, attesting facts performed in such a public manner, and in so celebrated...give us a full assurance in the testimony of men." How far this attitude toward the Gospel miracles has gained upon thoroughly Christian critics may be... | |
 | Henry F. Henderson - Church of Scotland - 1905 - 296 pages
...deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood ; and at the same time attesting facts, performed in such a public manner and in so celebrated...requisite to give us a full assurance in the testimony of men."4 In his reply Campbell cited the case of a comet. The chances against a comet appearing in a... | |
 | Alfred Ernest Crawley - Religion - 1905 - 360 pages
...deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood ; and, at the same time, attesting facts performed in such a public manner, and in so celebrated...circumstances are requisite to give us a full assurance in testimony of men."1 Even the Bible, we are reminded, admits that miracles can be performed without... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 pages
...deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood; and at the same time attesting facts, performed in such a public manner, and in so celebrated...circumstances are requisite to give us a full assurance of the testimony of men."—(IV. p. 135.) These are grave assertions, but they are least likely to... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Philosophers, Modern - 1909 - 234 pages
...being detected in any falsehood j and at the same time attesting facts, performed in such a"public manner, and in so celebrated a part of the world,...circumstances are requisite to give us a full assurance of the testimony of men."— (IV. p. 135.) These are -grave assertions, but they are least likely to... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1900 - 482 pages
...deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood; and at the same time attesting facts performed in such a public manner, and in so celebrated...give us a full assurance in the testimony of men." * The preceding paper called forth the following criticism signed " Agnosco," to which I append my... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - Free thought - 1913 - 442 pages
...any falsehood, and at the same time attesting facts performed in such a public manner as to render detection unavoidable — all which circumstances...give us a full assurance in the testimony of men. In the Dialogues on Natural Religion whic were not published till after his death (1776) , Hume made... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 pages
...deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood; and at the same time attesting facts, performed in such a public manner, and in so celebrated...circumstances are requisite to give us a full assurance of the testimony of men." — (IV. p. 135.) These are grave assertions; but they are least likely to... | |
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... of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood; and at the same time attesting facts, performed in such a public manner and in so celebrated a part of the world,... 
