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1 IV, I, 21 | fact, beyond the present testimony of our senses, or the records 2 V, I, 37 | our inferences from one testimony to another, till we arrive 3 II, 0, 60 | removed from the present testimony of our memory and senses. 4 IX, 0, 93 | acquired a confidence in human testimony, books and conversation 5 X, I, 95 | is founded merely in the testimony of the apostles, who were 6 X, I, 95 | such confidence in their testimony, as in the immediate object 7 X, I, 97 | which is derived from the testimony of men, and the reports 8 X, I, 97 | of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity 9 X, I, 97 | maxim in favour of human testimony, whose connexion with any 10 X, I, 97 | least confidence in human testimony. A man delirious, or noted 11 X, I, 97 | from witnesses and human testimony, is founded on past experience, 12 X, I, 98 | the opposition of contrary testimony; from the character or number 13 X, I, 98 | of their delivering their testimony; or from the union of all 14 X, I, 98 | when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or on the 15 X, I, 98 | argument, derived from human testimony.~ Suppose, for instance, 16 X, I, 98 | that the fact, which the testimony endeavours to establish, 17 X, I, 98 | evidence, resulting from the testimony, admits of a diminution, 18 X, I, 98 | perceive a priori, between testimony and reality, but because 19 X, I, 98 | degree of assurance in the testimony of witnesses, gives us also, 20 X, I, 98 | naturally required very strong testimony to engage his assent to 21 X, I, 98(*)| requires a pretty strong testimony to render it credible to 22 X, I, 99 | probability against the testimony of witnesses, let us suppose, 23 X, I, 99 | and suppose also, that the testimony considered apart and in 24 X, I, 100 | our attention), "That no testimony is sufficient to establish 25 X, I, 100 | establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that 26 X, I, 100 | If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, 27 X, II, 101 | we have supposed that the testimony, upon which a miracle is 28 X, II, 101 | that the falsehood of that testimony would be a real prodigy: 29 X, II, 101 | a full assurance in the testimony of men.~ 30 X, II, 102 | which we might, from human testimony, have, in any kind of prodigy. 31 X, II, 102 | common sense; and human testimony, in these circumstances, 32 X, II, 104 | prodigies, that there is no testimony for any, even those which 33 X, II, 104 | miracle destroys the credit of testimony, but the testimony destroys 34 X, II, 104 | credit of testimony, but the testimony destroys itself. To make 35 X, II, 104 | have for our warrant the testimony of a few barbarous Arabians: 36 X, II, 104 | we are to regard their testimony in the same light as if 37 X, II, 104 | one, is destroyed by the testimony of two others, who affirm 38 X, II, 105 | seems to add weight to the testimony, and might be displayed 39 X, II, 105 | fact, and confirming their testimony, after the Flavian family 40 X, II, 105 | to which they gave their testimony. And what adds mightily 41 X, II, 105 | accurately to disprove the testimony, and to trace its falsehood, 42 X, II, 105 | supported by any human testimony, was more properly a subject 43 X, II, 106 | just, because some human testimony has the utmost force and 44 X, II, 106 | that therefore all kinds of testimony must, in all cases, have 45 X, II, 106 | must be drawn from the very testimony itself of the reporters: 46 X, II, 107 | then, it appears, that no testimony for any kind of miracle 47 X, II, 107 | gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience, 48 X, II, 107 | as a maxim, that no human testimony can have such force as to 49 X, II, 108 | admit of proof from human testimony; though, perhaps, it will 50 X, II, 108 | within the reach of human testimony, if that testimony be very 51 X, II, 108 | human testimony, if that testimony be very extensive and uniform.~ 52 X, II, 108 | violation of truth in the testimony of men, with those of the 53 X, II, 108 | truth are more common in the testimony concerning religious miracles, 54 X, II, 108 | authority of the former testimony, and make us form a general 55 X, II, 109 | Christians, not as the word or testimony of God himself, but as the 56 X, II, 109 | corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous 57 X, II, 109 | book, supported by such a testimony, would be more extraordinary 58 XII, II, 136 | fact, which lies beyond the testimony of sense or memory, is derived