The book Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte was written by author Whately, Richard, 1787-1863 Here you can read free online of Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte a good or bad book?
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C. 20. [5] "With what greediness are the miraculous accounts of travellersreceived, their descriptions of sea and land monsters, their relationsof wonderful adventures, strange men, and uncouth manners!"—_Hume'sEssay on Miracles_, p. 179, 12mo; p. 185, 8vo, 1767; p. 117, 8vo, 1817. N. B. —In order to give every possible facility of reference, threeeditions of Hume's Essays have been generally employed: a 12mo, London, 1756, and two 8vo editions. [6] "Suppose a fact to be transmitted through twe...nty persons; thefirst communicating it to the second, the second to the third, &c. , and let the probability of each testimony be expressed by nine-tenths, (that is, suppose that of ten reports made by each witness, nine onlyare true, ) then, at every time the story passes from one witness toanother, the evidence is reduced to nine-tenths of what it was before. Thus, after it has passed through the whole twenty, the evidence willbe found to be less than one-eighth. "—LA PLACE, _Essai Philosophiquesur les Probabilités_.
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