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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes

David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...concerning any matter of fact, when the witnesses contradict each other; when they are but few, or of a doubtful character; when they have an interest in what they affirm ; when , they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or, on the contrary, with too violent asseverations....
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 2

David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...concerning any matter of fact, when the witnesses contradict each other ; when they are but few, or of a doubtful character; when they have an interest in what they affirm; when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or, on the contrary, with too violent asseverations....
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A history of the holy Bible, corrected and improved by G. Gleig, Volume 3

Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pages
...conceal it ; so tbat the end or middle of a false narrative, if it be of any length, and include a number of particular events or incidents, is commonly...from every thing that we have hitherto seen or heard ; because we may not be certain that the narrator is not under some influence to deceive us in matters...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...suspicion concerning any matter of fact when the witnesses contradict each other ; when they are but few or of a doubtful character ; when they have an interest in what they affirm ; when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or, on the contrary, with too violent asseverations....
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Directions for the study of theology, letters

George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 pages
...to conceal it, so that the end or middle of a felse narrative, if it be of any length, and include a number of particular events or incidents, is commonly...from every thing that we have hitherto seen or heard, because we may not be certain that the narrator is not under some influence to deceive us in matters...
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The Christian's Defence: Containing a Fair Statement, and Impartial ...

James Smith - Bible - 1843 - 728 pages
...suspicion concerning any matter of fact when the witnesses contradict each other, when they are but few or of a doubtful character, when they have an interest in what they affirm, when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or, on the contrary, with too violent asseverations....
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The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, Volumes 15-16

Universalism - 1858 - 906 pages
...suspicion concerning any matter of fact, when the witnesses contradict each other ; when they are few, or of a doubtful character ; when they have an interest in what they affirm ; when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or, on the contrary, with too violent asseverations."...
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The Philosophical Works, Volume 4

David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...suspicion concerning any matter of fact when the witnesses contradict each other; when they are but few or of a doubtful character ; when they have an interest in what they affirm ; when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or, on the contrary, with too violent asseverations....
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The Rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries, with chapters on the ancient ...

Hargrave Jennings - 1870 - 396 pages
...concerning any matter of fact when the witnesses contradict each other — when they are but few, or of a doubtful character — when they have an interest in what they affirm — when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or, on the contrary, with too violent asseverations....
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The Rosicrucians, Their Rites and Mysteries with Chapters on the Ancient ...

Hargrave Jennings - Rosicrucians - 1879 - 442 pages
...concerning any matter of fact when the witnesses contradict each other — when they are but few, or of a doubtful character — when they have an interest in what they affirm — when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or, on the contrary, with too violent asseverations....
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