 | Robert Owen - 1839 - 556 pages
...total darkness over the wholo earth for eight days. Suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people,...travellers who return from foreign countries bring ns accounts of the same tradition, without the least variation or contradiction, it is evident that... | |
 | Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people : tfiat all travelers wfio return from foreign countries bring us accounts of the same tradition, without the least raria(ion or contradiction ; it is evident that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact,... | |
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people ; that all travelers who return from foreign countries bring us accounts...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
 | Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1848 - 676 pages
...total darkness over the whole earth for eight days ; suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people...from foreign countries, bring us accounts of the same traditions, without the least variation or contradiction : it is evident that our present philosophers,... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Miracles - 1852 - 356 pages
...total darkness over all the earth for eight days: — suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people;...certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it must be derived."* — On the ground then, of such a testimony as is thus supposed, even a philosopher,... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...total darkness over the whole earth for eight days : suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
 | Bible - 1854 - 564 pages
...total darkness over the whole earth for eight days ; suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1854 - 566 pages
...total darkness over the whole earth for eight days ; suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...this extraordinary event is still strong and lively íinmng the people; that all travelers who Murii from foreign countries bring us accounts of the same...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search fur the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
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Thus, suppose, all authors, in all languages agree that from the first of January 1600 there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: Suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people:... 
