I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most... Hume - Página 141por Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 216 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 páginas
...would undertake to defend it by the principles of human reason ? " Our most holy religion-," says he, " is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method to expose it, to put it to the trial of reason." * Our modern philosophers may have been warranted... | |
| Theophilus Lindsey - 1805 - 338 páginas
...apply his argument where he intended, the author proceeds, with a smiling grimace, to U,I1 us, ' that our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on...reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it, to put if to such a trial as it is by no means filted to endure.' This he pretends to make evident by examining... | |
| George Campbell - 1807 - 294 páginas
...need of a revisal. § " OUR. most holy religion," says the author in the conclusion of his essay, " is founded ** on faith, not on reason ; and it is...a " trial, as it is by no means fitted to endure." If, by our most holy religion, we are to understand the fundamental articles of the Christian system,... | |
| George Campbell - 1807 - 530 páginas
...need of a revisal^ J. " Our most holy religion," says the author in the conclusion of his essay, " is founded on faith, not on reason,; and " it is a...a trial, " as it is by no means fitted to endure." If, by our most holy religion, we are to understand the fundamental articles of the Christian system,... | |
| David Hume - 1809 - 556 páginas
...human reason. Ottr rnbst holy religion is' fouhd'ed Oh Faith, not on reason; aird it is a sure methb'd of exposing it, to put it to such a trial as it is, by n'o ineans, fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles related in scripture... | |
| John Fearn - 1815 - 246 páginas
...Christianity, with the following sarcastical remark,—" Our most Holy Religion is founded on " Fah' , not on reason; and it is a sure method of " exposing...a trial as it is by no " means fitted to endure." * — Now, it is pretty clear 1 humbly agree with him, that our Religion is founded on FATTH : and... | |
| David Hume - 1817 - 540 páginas
...by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded • NOT. Org. lib. ii. aph. 29. on "Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method...exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no moans fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles related in scripture;... | |
| David Hume - 1817 - 528 páginas
...by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded * Nov. Org. lib. ii. aph. 29, on Faith* not on reason ; and it is a sure method of ex- > posing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. To make this more... | |
| Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 páginas
...or disguised enemies, to the Christian religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." What Hume said in derision has been virtually repeated, apparently in earnest, by some of the modern... | |
| Edward William Grinfield - 1818 - 634 páginas
...Christianity with profound respect. Thus, in the tenth section of his Essay on Miracles, he says, " that our most holy religion " is founded on faith, not on reason ;" and he asserts " that it gives him delight to have " invented an argument which may confute " the dangerous... | |
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