 | 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 - 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 - 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,...it a just foundation for any system of religion." In the note on this passage, he has these words. " I beg- the • Pag. 194. * p. 20J. " limitation... | |
 | George Campbell - 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...it a just foundation for " any system of religion." In the note on this passage, he has these words : " I beg " the limitation here made, may be remark"... | |
 | Herbert Marsh - 1812 - 764 pages
...part of his Essay * he qualifies his inference by saying, " that no human testimony can " have such a force as to prove a miracle, and " make it a just foundation for any system of " religion." And he adds a note, which begins with the following words. "I beg the limitations " may be remarked,... | |
 | John Fearn - 1815 - 246 pages
...leaves the ANTICHEISTIAN part in full force. Toward the end of his Essay, where he has just said that, " we may establish it as a maxim, " that no human testimony...such force as " to prove a miracle, and make it a foundation for "any such system of religion," — he subjoinsalong note, which begins thus: — " I... | |
 | 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...prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such .system of religion. I beg the limitations here made may be remarked, when I say, that a miracle... | |
 | George Campbell - 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...it a just foundation for ' any system of religion.' In the note on this passage, he has these words. ' I beg the limitation ' here made, may be remarked,... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 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 - 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... | |
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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. 
