 | Frederic Henry Hedge - Theology - 1860 - 504 pages
...believe them? That they saw something which they believed to be a mermaid, would be easily conceded. No amount of attestation of innumerable and honest...squared the circle or discovered perpetual motion. Antecedent credibility depends on antecedent knowledge and enlarged views of the connection and dependence... | |
 | John Radford Young - Cosmogony - 1861 - 50 pages
...competent to form a sound judgment on the matter would have pronounced to be incredible : he says — "No amount of attestation of innumerable and honest...squared the circle, or discovered perpetual motion" (p. 141). Who would have expected this from the Professor of Geometry at Oxford? All that can be 29... | |
 | Missions - 1861 - 930 pages
...that He walked upon the waters— that He cast out devils, and raised the dead." Mr. Powell adds, " No amount of attestation of innumerable and honest...squared the circle, or discovered perpetual motion. Antecedent credibility depends on antecedent knowledge and enlarged views of the connexion and dependence... | |
 | John Nash Griffin - Essays and reviews - 1862 - 354 pages
...for, says the writer, no amount of testimony could make us believe that two and two make five! or " would ever convince any one versed in mathematical...squared the circle, or discovered perpetual motion .... testimony can avail nothing against reason" (p. 141). Of course not. No one ever said it could.... | |
 | James Smith - 1870 - 634 pages
...Baden Powell — an eminent and well known "recognised Mathematician" — "no amount of attestation by innumerable and honest witnesses would ever convince any one versed in mathematical science, that any man had squared the circle." The attempt to find an entrance into the mind of a "... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - Christianity - 1874 - 522 pages
...believe them ? That they saw something which they believed to be a mermaid would be easily conceded. No amount of attestation of innumerable and honest...and mechanical science that a person had squared the cirele or discovered perpetual motion. Antecedent credibility depends on antecedent knowledge and enlarged... | |
 | Edwin Hamilton Gifford - 1874 - 314 pages
...41 of testimony, that ' no amount of attestation of innumerable and honest witnesses would convince one versed in mathematical and mechanical science,...squared the circle, or discovered perpetual motion ; ' or ' that on a certain occasion they had seen two and two make five.' * It seems astonishing that... | |
 | Victor Shea, William Whitla - History - 2000 - 1092 pages
...believe them? That they saw something which they believed to be a mermaid, would be easily conceded. No amount of attestation of innumerable and honest...squared the circle or discovered perpetual motion. Antecedent credibility depends on antecedent knowledge, and enlarged views of the connexion and dependence... | |
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... witnesses were cunningly imposed upon, or the wizard himself deluded. If the most numerous ship's company were all to asseverate that they had seen a mermaid, would any rational persons at the present day believe them? That they saw something which... 