 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 subtract the one from the other,...  THE MONTHLY REVIEW - Page 72by Several Hands - 1752Full view - About this book
 | SERVERAL HANDS - 1755 - 552 pages
...Mr. Hume tells us, that it is experience alone, which gives authority to human teftimony, and that it is the fame experience which affures us of the...nature. When therefore thefe two kinds of experience arc contrary, we have nothing to do, he fays, but to fubtracl: the one from the other.— And this... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Hume - Commerce - 1758 - 568 pages
...endeavor to eftablifh. Tis experience only, which gives authority to human teftimony -, and 'tis the fime experience, which affures us of the laws of nature....experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but fubftract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion, either on one fide or the other, with that... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Leland - 1764 - 426 pages
...experience alone, faith he, which gives au" thority to human teftimony ; and 'tis the fame experience " that affures us of the laws of nature. When therefore thefe...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... | |
 | Henry Owen - 1773 - 328 pages
...experience only which gives authority to human teftimony ; and 'tis the fame experience, which aflures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, thefe two kinds of experience (obferve the 1 words) are Contrary, we have nothing to do but fubtraft the oiie from the other,' and... | |
 | William Adams - Sermons - 1777 - 394 pages
...alone which gives " authority to human teftimony; and 'tis "••the- fame experience which allures us of "the laws of nature. When, therefore, " thefe two kinds of experience are contra-- .'* . ry, we have nothing to do but fubtra<5l .*•* the one from the other, arad embrace... | |
 | David Hume - Essays - 1779 - 548 pages
...experience only, which gives authority to human teftimony; and it is the fame experience, which allures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, thefe two...kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing •' thing to do but fubtract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion, either on one fide or... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...human testimony; and the same experience that assures us of the law of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but to subtract the one from the other. And this subtraction, with regard to all popular religions, amounts... | |
 | John Leland, William Laurence Brown - Apologetics - 1798 - 496 pages
...which gives " authority to human teftimony ; and 'tis the fame experience " that affures us of tlie laws of nature. When therefore thefe " two kinds of...experience< are contrary, we have nothing to do, " but to fubftracl the one from the other — And this fubftrac" tion with regard to all popular religions... | |
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