 | Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 500 頁
...nature, from and to Eternity ? " If therefore it be admitted with Mr. Hume that " no human testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. And even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh, Anthony Collins, John Watts, William Harral Johnson - 1858 - 362 頁
...superior. The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention,) ' That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. And even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1859 - 628 頁
...contrary to experience. " It is," says Mr. Hume, " a maxim worthy of our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish." Hence he asserts, that " the evidence of testimony, when applied to a miracle,... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1860 - 400 頁
...contrary to experience. " It is," says Mr. Hume, " a maxim worthy of our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." Hence he asserts, that " the evidence of testimony, when applied to a miracle, carries falsehood on... | |
 | George Hill - 1861 - 162 頁
...case the words of Mr Hume, although he certainly did not mean them to be so applied : " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." The falsehood of the testimony of the apostles would be more miraculous — *. e., it is more improbable... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1861 - 786 頁
...argument against the credibility of any account of miracles is expressed as follows : " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." A miracle is a deviation from the ordinary course of nature, and it is therefore evident that one fact... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1862 - 622 頁
...of Hume's argument to be that no testimony is sufficient to establish an improbability, unless that testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more improbable than the occurrence of the fact which it endeavours to establish, it altogether fails to... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1865 - 252 頁
...experience can possibly be imagined.' * And if so, it is an undeniable consequence that ' no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it would endeavour to establish ; and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and... | |
 | 1867 - 902 頁
...miracles with M. Re'nan ; we shall simply set over against him the dictum of Hume, " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...the fact which it endeavours to establish ; and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of argument, and the superior only gives us that degree... | |
 | 1871 - 608 頁
...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. . . . The plain consequence is that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish j and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the... | |
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That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish... 
