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Page vii
... favour of the christian religion . We are not without hope that the intelligent reader will be able to reap the same fruit from the sceptical reasonings of Mr. Hume . If the argumentation which we have employed against him be at all ...
... favour of the christian religion . We are not without hope that the intelligent reader will be able to reap the same fruit from the sceptical reasonings of Mr. Hume . If the argumentation which we have employed against him be at all ...
Page viii
... favour above all that can possibly be claimed for the best attested histories which have been transmitted to the present day , in any other records of past ages . Christianity on this ground too , as on many others , has we think not ...
... favour above all that can possibly be claimed for the best attested histories which have been transmitted to the present day , in any other records of past ages . Christianity on this ground too , as on many others , has we think not ...
Page 54
... favour , the resulting anticipation may not be of greater strength than was that original anticipation wherewith the infant looked for a repetition of the sound from its first repetition 1 of a stroke . This long experience does not 54 ...
... favour , the resulting anticipation may not be of greater strength than was that original anticipation wherewith the infant looked for a repetition of the sound from its first repetition 1 of a stroke . This long experience does not 54 ...
Page 65
... favour of that information being true . But should it inform us of a low - water at the time when , on the strength of a thousand past instances , we were left to expect a high - water the probability for the truth of this information ...
... favour of that information being true . But should it inform us of a low - water at the time when , on the strength of a thousand past instances , we were left to expect a high - water the probability for the truth of this information ...
Page 66
... favour of its testimony for any indifferent thing is just as twenty to one - though in favour of its testimony for an anomalous low - water in the face of a thou- sand regular high - waters it be only as one to fifty . This however does ...
... favour of its testimony for any indifferent thing is just as twenty to one - though in favour of its testimony for an anomalous low - water in the face of a thou- sand regular high - waters it be only as one to fifty . This however does ...
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