 | David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...stories of centaurs and dragons, miracles and prodigies. And if we would explode any forgery in history, we cannot make use of a more convincing argument, than to prove, that the actions, ascribed to any person, are directly contrary to the course of nature, and that no human motives, in such circumstances,... | |
 | David Hume - English essays - 1825 - 546 pages
...dragons, miracles and prodigies. And if we would explode any forgery in history, we caanot make use of • more convincing argument than to prove, that the actions ascribed to any person are directly contrary to the course of nature, and that no human motives, in such circumstances,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1826 - 596 pages
...our judgments by means of Experience: "and if," says he, " we would explode any forgery in history, we cannot make use of a more convincing argument, than to prove that the actions ascribed to any person, are directly contrary to the course of nature . . . The veracity of Quintus Curtius is as suspicious... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 626 pages
...stories of centaurs and dragons, miracles and prodigies. And if we would explode any forgery in history, we cannot make use of a more convincing argument than to prove, that the actions ascribed to any person are directly contrary to the course of nature, and that no human motives, in such circumstances,... | |
 | John Leland - Apologetics - 1837 - 784 pages
...physical, cannot reasonably be denied. And such is the case here put. And he expressly declareth, that "we cannot make use of a more convincing argument than to prove, that the actions ascribed to any person are contrary to the course of nature, and that no human motives in such circumstances could... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1841 - 80 pages
...judgments by means of Experience : " and if," says he, " we would explode any forgery in history, " we cannot make use of a more convincing argument, than " to prove that the actions ascribed to any person, are directly " contrary to the course of nature " The veracity of Quintus Curtius is as " suspicious... | |
 | Richard Whately - Evidence - 1843 - 72 pages
...by means of Experience : " and if," says he, " we would explode any forgery in history, we can" not make use of a more convincing argument, than to prove that the " actions ascribed to any person, are directly contrary to the course of "nature ............ The veracity of Quintus " Curtius... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1846 - 682 pages
...stories of centaurs and dragons, miracles and prodigies. And if we would explode any forgery in history, we cannot make use of a more convincing argument than to prove, that the actions ascribed to any person are directly contrary to the course of nature, and that no human motives, in such circumstances... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 512 pages
...stories of centaurs and dragons, miracles and prodigies. And if we would explode any forgery in history, we cannot make use of a more convincing argument than to prove, that the actions ascribed to any person are directly contrary to the course of nature, and that no human motives, in such circumstances,... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...stories of centaurs and dragons, miracles and prodigies. And if we would explode any forgery in history, we cannot make use of a more convincing argument than to prove, that the actions ascribed to any person are directly contrary to the course of nature, and that no human motives, in such circumstances,... | |
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And if we would explode any forgery in history, we cannot make use of a more convincing argument than to prove that the actions ascribed to any person are directly contrary to the course of nature, and that no human motives, in such circumstances, could... 
