Of the direct historical evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distinguished from the evidence alleged for other miracles |
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... facts strictly connected with the propositions ( and therefore no farther improbable than they are improbable ) , ought to be rejected at first sight , and to be rejected by what- ever strength or complication of evidence they be ...
... facts strictly connected with the propositions ( and therefore no farther improbable than they are improbable ) , ought to be rejected at first sight , and to be rejected by what- ever strength or complication of evidence they be ...
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... fact is then only contrary to experience , when the fact is related to have existed at a time and place , at which time and place we being present did not perceive it to exist ; as if it should be asserted , that in a particular room ...
... fact is then only contrary to experience , when the fact is related to have existed at a time and place , at which time and place we being present did not perceive it to exist ; as if it should be asserted , that in a particular room ...
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... fact be of a miraculous nature or not . But although this be the experience , and the contrariety , which Archbishop Tillotson alledged in the quotation with which Mr. Hume opens his Essay , it is certainly not that expe- rience , nor ...
... fact be of a miraculous nature or not . But although this be the experience , and the contrariety , which Archbishop Tillotson alledged in the quotation with which Mr. Hume opens his Essay , it is certainly not that expe- rience , nor ...
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... fact solves the phenomenon . If we reject this solution , we ought to have some other to rest in ; and none even by our adversaries can be admitted , which is not consistent with the principles that regulate human af- fairs and human ...
... fact solves the phenomenon . If we reject this solution , we ought to have some other to rest in ; and none even by our adversaries can be admitted , which is not consistent with the principles that regulate human af- fairs and human ...
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... fact , are on all hands ac- knowledged . todel First then , the Christian religion exists , and therefore by some means or other was established . Now it either owes the princi- ple of its establishment , i . e . its first publica- tion ...
... fact , are on all hands ac- knowledged . todel First then , the Christian religion exists , and therefore by some means or other was established . Now it either owes the princi- ple of its establishment , i . e . its first publica- tion ...
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