...cover to absurdity and error.* " Nay, says he, I flatter myself I have discovered an argurncrit, which will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and convquently, will be useful as Jong as the world endures." It is lamentable to see such waste of deep...

...(rather prematurely, we think) on having discovered an argument which, with the wise and learned, was to be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion ; and, consequently, was to be useful as long as the world endured. The argument is far from satisfying us, either in its...

...their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be...superstitious delusion, and consequently will be useful as Jong as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found...

...universal experience of ail men.! " Mr. Hume says, ' I flatter myself that I have discovered an argument, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitioui delusion, and, consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures.1 He ihe« gives...

...such reports to be false. This is the argument which Hume, with no great modesty, boasted, " would, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check...kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently would be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, he presumes, will the accounts of miracles...

...flatter myself," says he, in the commencement of his treatise, " that I have discovered an argument, which, if just, will with the wise and learned, be...consequently will be useful as long as the world endures." And when writing to his friend Dr. Campbell, we find the following romantic account of the circumstances...

...ESTABLISH THE CREDIBILITY OF MIRACLES. MR. HUME says,* " I flatter myself I " have discovered 'an argument, which, " if just, will with the wise and learned " be an everlasting check to all kinds " of superstition and delusion ; for so " long as the world endures will the " accounts of miracles be found...

...miracles. ' I flatter myself,' he says, ' that I have discovered an argument of a like [decisive] nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be...an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious credulity, and consequently be useful as long as the world endures.' And the argument thus ostentatiously...

...such reports to be false. This is the argument which Hume, with no great modesty, boasted, "would, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check....kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently would be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, he presumes, will the accounts of miracles...

...he afterward, in his treatise against miracles declares, ' If just, with the wise and learned will be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious...and consequently will be useful as long as the world stands.' Now, allow me, without vanity or egotism, as an offset to this story, to furnish a brief history...