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... fubject , it may be neceffary , before we proceed farther , to examine the principle upon which it pro- feffes to be founded : which principle is con- cifely this , that it is contrary to experience that a miracle fhould be true , but ...
... fubject , it may be neceffary , before we proceed farther , to examine the principle upon which it pro- feffes to be founded : which principle is con- cifely this , that it is contrary to experience that a miracle fhould be true , but ...
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... fubject of the controverfy . Now the improbability which arifes from the want ( for this properly is a want , not a contradiction ) of experience , is only equal to the probability there is , that , if the thing were true , we should ...
... fubject of the controverfy . Now the improbability which arifes from the want ( for this properly is a want , not a contradiction ) of experience , is only equal to the probability there is , that , if the thing were true , we should ...
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... culous hiftory recorded in our fcriptures , and folely in confequence of their belief of the truth of this hiftory . Before we produce any particular tefti C 2 mony mony to the activity and fufferings which compofe the fubject [ 19 ]
... culous hiftory recorded in our fcriptures , and folely in confequence of their belief of the truth of this hiftory . Before we produce any particular tefti C 2 mony mony to the activity and fufferings which compofe the fubject [ 19 ]
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... fubject of our firft affertion , it will be proper to confider the degree of pro- bability which the affertion derives from the nature of the cafe , that is , by inferences from thofe parts of the cafe which , in point of fact , are on ...
... fubject of our firft affertion , it will be proper to confider the degree of pro- bability which the affertion derives from the nature of the cafe , that is , by inferences from thofe parts of the cafe which , in point of fact , are on ...
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... fubject of his ridicule t . Nothing however * Lard . Heath . Teft . v . ii . p . 110 . + In matutinâ nuper fpectatus arenâ Mucius , impofuit qui fua membra focis , Si patiens fortifque tibi durufque videtur , Abderitanĉ pectora plebis ...
... fubject of his ridicule t . Nothing however * Lard . Heath . Teft . v . ii . p . 110 . + In matutinâ nuper fpectatus arenâ Mucius , impofuit qui fua membra focis , Si patiens fortifque tibi durufque videtur , Abderitanĉ pectora plebis ...
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