 ... delusion in .themselves ; of such undoubted integrity, as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; 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...  Collected Essays - Page 201by Thomas Henry Huxley - 1900Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education, and, learning, as to secure us against...give us a full assurance in the testimony of men. Secondly, We may observe in human nature a principle, which, if strictly examined, will be found to... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education, and learning, as to secure us against all...give us a full assurance in the testimony of men. Secondly, We may observe in human nature a principle, which, if strictly examined, will be found to... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood ; and at the same time attesting fects, performed in such a public manner, and in so celebrated...give us a full assurance in the testimony of men. Secondly, We may observe in human nature a principle which, if strictly examined, will be found to... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 540 pages
...of their being detected in any falsehood ; and at the same time attesting facts, performed in sucli a public manner, and in so celebrated a part of the...give us a full assurance in the testimony of men. Secondly, We may observe in human nature a principle which, if strictly examined, will be found to... | |
 | John Douglas - Bible - 1824 - 268 pages
...others; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of being detected in any falsehood ; and, at the same...give us a full assurance in the testimony of men."* However confidently this be asserted, from what I have offered, it seems plain, that in every circumstance,... | |
 | Jonathan Duncan - Dissenters, Religious - 1825 - 274 pages
...and reputation in the eye of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of being detected in a falsehood ; and at the same time attesting facts,...requisite to give us a full assurance in the testimony of man."^ Although the performance of miracles is not the only evidence to prove that the Founder of Christianity... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...undoubted integrity, as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such eredit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have...give us a Full assurance in the testimony of men. Secondly, We may observe in human nature a principle which, if strictly examined, will be found to... | |
 | John Leland - Apologetics - 1837 - 784 pages
...others; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of being detected in any falsehood ; and at the same...give us a full assurance in the testimony of men."* Here he supposes that where these circumstances concur, we may have full assurance in the testimony... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - Apologetics - 1843 - 460 pages
...; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of being detected in any falsehood ; and at the same...give us a full assurance in the testimony of men." * To this statement, as intended to apply to the witnesses for the miracles of Jesus, I except as follows;... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education, and learning, as to secure us against all...give us a full assurance in the testimony of men. Secondly, We may observe in human nature a principle which, if strictly examined, will be found to... | |
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