 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Apologetics - 1853 - 498 pages
...from the supposed existence of some miracles in a former age, which we could not have witnessed.* ble that this person 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." — Humes... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 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 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... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...deducting the inferior." When anyone 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... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - Free thought - 1857 - 360 pages
...deducting the inferior. When any one tells me thnt he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable that this person should cither deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh... | |
 | Peter Bayne - Apologetics - 1862 - 204 pages
...experience. "When any one," proceeds Hume, "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... | |
 | John Nash Griffin - Essays and reviews - 1862 - 354 pages
...he says, "that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consult with myself whether it is more probable that this person should either deceive...the fact he relates should really have happened." Consulting, then, with himself, upon this matter, he thinks he finds a full proof against the existence... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - Apologetics - 1865 - 252 pages
...another passage : — ' 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, and according... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1874 - 60 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... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - Bible - 1874 - 550 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 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... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - Apologetics - 1875 - 520 pages
...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 the one miracle against the other ; arid according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the... | |
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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. 
