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" It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but to subtract the one from the other,... "
A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections ... - Page 40
by Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794
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THE MONTHLY REVIEW

Several Hands - 1752 - 508 pages
...tefiimony ; and it is the fame experience which affures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, thefe two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but fuhl tract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion, either on the one fide or the other, with...
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A View of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have Appeared in ..., Volume 2

John Leland - Apologetics - 1755 - 698 pages
...and 'tis the fame experience thatLETTER afiiires us of the laws of nature. When there- m. fore thefc two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do, but to fubftrad the one from the other — And this fubftraftion " with regard to all popular religions amounts...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1

David Hume - Economics - 1760 - 314 pages
...teftimony ; and 'tis the fame experience, which afTures us of the laws of nature. When, theiefore» the/e two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but fuGftract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion, either on one fide or the other, with that...
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A view of the principal deistical writers ... in England in the ..., Volume 1

John Leland - 1764 - 426 pages
...teftimony ; and 'tis the fame experience " that affures us of the laws of nature. When therefore thefe *' two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do, " but to fubftract the one from the other — And this fubftrac" tion with regard to all popular religions amounts...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 52

1831 - 576 pages
...gives autho' rity to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which ' assures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two * kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but ' subtract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion, either ' on one side or the other, with...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience that assures us of the laws of nature. When therefore these two kinds of experience...popular religions amounts to an entire annihilation. And it is chiefly upon this, says^Dr. Leland, ' That he founds the arrogant censure, which, with an...
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A Course of Lectures, Containing a Description and Systematic ..., Volume 1

Herbert Marsh - Bible - 1812 - 764 pages
...testimony : and 'tis the same experience which " assures us of the laws of nature. When there" fore these two kinds of experience are contrary, " we have...to do, but to subtract the " one from the other." Since then experience is against a miracle, whereas experience does not always decide for the veracity...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature. "When, therefore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but subtract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion, either on one side or the other, with that...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 22

1824 - 602 pages
...which gives authority to human testimony : and 'tis the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of experience...nothing to do, but to subtract the one from the other." Since then experience is against a miracle, whereas experience does not always decide for the veracity...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 22; Volume 40

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1824 - 624 pages
...which gives authority to human testimony: and 'tis the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of experience...nothing to do, but to subtract the one from the other." Since then experience is against a miracle, whereas experience does not always decide for the veracity...
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