 | 1831 - 576 pages
...whom they are related. Still less does he adopt that singular limitation, by which Hume confines his maxim, that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, to the single occasion of its being advanced as the foundation of a system of religion. For otherwise,... | |
 | David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...subtraction, with regard to all popular refigions, amounts to an entire annihilation ; and therefore xve may establish it as a maxim, that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and rrkijjK-er' it a just foundation for any such system of religion."' 3li I beg the limitations here... | |
 | George Campbell - Church history - 1807 - 530 pages
...retracts part of what he had advanced in 4he- beginning. u We may establish it as a maxim that no hu" man testimony can have such force, as to prove a miracle, *' and make it a just foundation for any system of religion." In the note on this passage, he has these words. " I beg-... | |
 | George Campbell - Miracles - 1807 - 294 pages
...what he had advanced in the beginning. " We may esta" blish it as a maxim, that no human testi" mony can have such force, as to prove a " miracle, and make it a just foundation for " any system of religion." In the note on this passage, he has these words : "... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...subtraction with regard to all popular religions, amounts to an entire annihilation ; and therefore we may establish it as a maxim, that no human testimony...have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such .system of religion. I beg the limitations here made may be remarked,... | |
 | George Campbell - Church of Scotland - 1823 - 590 pages
...therefore, in the end of the same paragraph, retracts part of what he had advanced in the beginning. ' We may establish it as a maxim, that ' no human testimony...such force, as to ' prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for ' any system of religion.' In the note on this passage, he has these words. ' I... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1825 - 256 pages
...of argument. No testimony for any kind of miracle can ever possibly amount to a probability" — "We establish it as a maxim, that no human testimony can have such force, as to prove a miracle, and make a just foundation for any system of religion." — " Our belief or assurance of any fact from the report... | |
 | David Welsh - Medicine - 1825 - 612 pages
...substraction, with regard to all popular religions, amounts to an entire annihilation ; and, therefore, we may establish it as a maxim, that no human testimony can have such force as to The argument upon which Mr. Hume chiefly rested, is contained in the second part of his Essay, and... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 pages
...this subtraction with regard to all popular religions amounts to an entire annihilation; and therefore we may establish it as a maxim, that no human testimony can have su«h force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion. I... | |
 | David Welsh - Medicine - 1825 - 568 pages
...impostors and pretended miracles that have been in the world is, not that " human testimony can never have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for a system of religion ;" but that we ought to be most scrupulous in sifting the... | |
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... no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion. 
