 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1848 - 908 pages
...friend, iLbfigrs.npt the niarFof fiction ; on the contrary, the history of Socrates, v which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that...should agree to write such a history, than that one only should furnish the subject of it. The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction, and of the... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...marks of fiction ; on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not BO well attested as that of JESUS CHRIST. Such a supposition,...should agree to write such a history, than that one only should furnish the subject of it. The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction, and strangers... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1848 - 676 pages
...friend, it bears not the marks of fiction ; on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that...without obviating it ; it is more inconceivable, that a num. her of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one only should furnish the subject... | |
 | 1848 - 460 pages
...not the marks of fiction; on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nohody presumes to douht, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such...supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty, without ohviating it; it is more inconceivahle, that a numher of persons should agree to write such a history,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...? Indeed, it bears not the marks of fiction. On the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. The supposition that several persons had united to fabricate this book is more inconceivable than that... | |
 | 1848 - 876 pages
...? indeed it bears not the marks of fiction. On the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction, and strangers to the morality contained in the gospel,... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1849 - 450 pages
...ostentation ? Shall we suppose the Evangelical history a mere fiction ? Indeed, it bears not the marks of a fiction ; on the contrary, the history of Socrates,...should agree to write such a history, than that one only should furnish the subject of it. The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction, and were strangers... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1850 - 882 pages
...my friend, it bears not the mark of fiction : on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that...number of persons should agree to write such a history, loan that one only should furnish the subject of it. The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction,... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pages
...my friend, it bears not the mark of fiction ; on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that...more inconceivable, that a number of persons should write such a history, than that one should furnish the subject of it. The Jewish anthers were incapable... | |
 | George Griffin - 1850 - 370 pages
...my friend, it bears not the marks of fiction: on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition, in feet, only shifts the difficulty without obviating it; it is more inconceivable that a number of persons... | |
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Shall we suppose the evangelic history a mere fiction ? Indeed, my friend, it bears not the marks of fiction ; on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition,... 
