The works of Thomas Chalmers, المجلد 31836 |
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الصفحة 268 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
الصفحة 238 - This is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our Gods, who teaches many neither to offer sacrifice nor to worship.
الصفحة 181 - that there are more, and larger quotations of the small volume of the New Testament in this one Christian author, than there are of all the works of Cicero in writers of all characters for several ages...
الصفحة 73 - Now, a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature : and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined...
الصفحة 278 - Of near two hundred and fifty authors, whose works are cited in these volumes, by far the greater part of whom were celebrated in their generation, there are not thirty who now enjoy...
الصفحة 72 - All probability, then, supposes an opposition of experiments and observations, where the one side is found to overbalance the other, and to produce a degree of evidence, proportioned to the superiority.
الصفحة 273 - I can tell the place in which the blessed Polycarp sat and taught, and his going out and coming in, and the manner of his life, and the form of his person, and the discourses he made to the people ; and how he related his conversation with John, and others who had seen the Lord, and how he related their sayings, and what he had heard...
الصفحة 114 - If we had ourselves," he says, " been spectators of such an event, we would not believe our own eyes, till we had scrupulously examined all the circumstances, and assured ourselves that there was no trick nor deception. After such an examination, we would not hesitate to admit it notwithstanding its great improbability."* Yet La * The following is the translation of a passage from La Place's " Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilites,
الصفحة 280 - Our living poets will then be nearly as old as Pope and Swift are at present — but there will stand between them and that generation nearly ten times as much fresh and fashionable poetry as is now interposed...
الصفحة 40 - When it is •"It has been frequently remarked, that the justest and most efficient understandings are ofien possessed by men who are incapable of stating to others, or even to themselves, the grounds on which they proceed in forming their decisions. In some instances, I have been disposed to ascribe this to the faults of early education ; but, in other cases, I am persuaded, that it was the effect of active and imperious habits in quickening the evanescent processes of thought, so as to render them...