The SkepticJ. Munroe and Company, 1850 |
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Page 46 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 13 - Except ye be converted, •and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." But this was spoken to the disciples expressly to rebuke their pride and teach them humility; because they had asked him : Who shall be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven...
Page 132 - And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Page 90 - Millicient reasons, and these are the qualities and conditions on which credibility depends. " 2. This argument of Hume proves too much, and therefore proves nothing. It proves too much ; for if I am to reject the strongest testimony to miracles, because testimony has often deceived me, whilst nature's order has never been found to fail, then I ought to reject a miracle, even if...
Page 90 - This argument of Hume proves too much, and therefore proves nothing. It proves too much; for if I am to reject the strongest testimony to miracles because testimony has often deceived me, whilst nature's order has never been found to fail, then I ought to reject a miracle, even if I should see it with my own eyes, and if all my senses should attest it; for all my senses have sometimes given false reports, whilst nature has never gone astray; and, therefore, be the circumstances ever...
Page 95 - believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the "Koran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 30 - He veils himself in everlasting laws, Which and not him the sceptic seeing exclaims, ' Wherefore a God? The World itself is God.
Page 5 - ... the evidence of things not seen, the substance of things hoped for.
Page 133 - James had received, the purport of which was, that he had a few words to say to him, but that they would be 12 his last; and the messenger added that he believed he was dying.
Page 90 - ... pronounced absurd ; and what is more, it would subvert that very order of nature on which the argument rests : for this order of nature is learned only by the exercise of my senses and judgment, and if these fail me, in the most unexceptionable circumstances, then their testimony to nature is of little worth.