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Page 8
... produce a false result , he is sure that there must be some mistake in the demonstration . Now to proceed in this way with what may be called Mr. Hume's theorem . If twelve men , whose probity and good sense I had long known , should ...
... produce a false result , he is sure that there must be some mistake in the demonstration . Now to proceed in this way with what may be called Mr. Hume's theorem . If twelve men , whose probity and good sense I had long known , should ...
Page 10
... produce any particular testimony to the activity and sufferings which compose the subject of our first assertion , it will be proper to consider the degree of probability which the assertion derives from the nature of the case , that is ...
... produce any particular testimony to the activity and sufferings which compose the subject of our first assertion , it will be proper to consider the degree of probability which the assertion derives from the nature of the case , that is ...
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... produce was very consi- derable . It is a change which we do not easily estimate , because , ourselves and all about us being habituated to the institutions from our infancy , it is what we neither experience nor observe . After men ...
... produce was very consi- derable . It is a change which we do not easily estimate , because , ourselves and all about us being habituated to the institutions from our infancy , it is what we neither experience nor observe . After men ...
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... produce this state of things within this time . Secondly , to a point which has been already noticed , and which I think of importance to be ob- served , namely , the sufferings to which Christians were exposed , without any public ...
... produce this state of things within this time . Secondly , to a point which has been already noticed , and which I think of importance to be ob- served , namely , the sufferings to which Christians were exposed , without any public ...
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... producing an effect upon remote generations . In forgeries which do not appear till many ages after that to which they pretend to belong , it is possible that some contrivance of that sort may take place ; but in no others can it be ...
... producing an effect upon remote generations . In forgeries which do not appear till many ages after that to which they pretend to belong , it is possible that some contrivance of that sort may take place ; but in no others can it be ...
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