 Here, then, we are first to consider a book presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and, in all probability, long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony,...  The Quarterly Review - Seite 5871844Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Theophilus Lindsey - 1805 - 338 Seiten
...and, in all probability, long after the facts it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts which every nation gives of its origin. Upon reading this book we find it full of prodigies and miracles : it gives an account of a state of... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 Seiten
...in all probability long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts which every nation gives of its origin. Upon reading this book, we find it full of prodigies' and miracles. It gives an account of a state... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 626 Seiten
...in all probability, long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts which every nation gives of its origin. Upon reading b Nov. Org. lib. ii. aph. 29. this book, we find it full of prodigies and miracles. It... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1839 - 394 Seiten
...in all probability, long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts which every nation gives of its origin."* A mere human (or uninspired) writer never foretold events, before * Hume's Essays, vol. ii., p. 137.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 Seiten
...of those who have been tempted to appear as prophète о ambassadors from Heaven : books presentee to us by a barbarous and ignorant people written in...origin Charles fully appreciated the insufficiency о such testimony. We have the strongest proofs that he never entered into the delusion, from the marked... | |
 | 1853 - 448 Seiten
...all probability, long after ^ the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts which every nation gives of its origin." Whatever may have been the fact in regard to the " no concurring testimony" to the statements of the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 Seiten
...in all probability long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts which every nation gives of its origin. Upon reading this book we find it full of prodigies and miracles. It gives an account of a state of... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 Seiten
...in all probability long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts which every nation gives of its origin. Upon reading this book we find it full of prodigies and miracles. It gives an account of a state of... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 Seiten
...in all probability long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts which every nation gives of its origin. Upon reading this book we find it full of prodigies and miracles. It gives an account of a state of... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 388 Seiten
...in all probability, long after the facts which it relates; corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts which every nation gives of its origin V Every particular of this tirade may be at this date successfully contested, and some of them were... | |
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