In the first place, merely as a matter of historical attestation, the Gospels are not the strongest evidence for the Christian miracles.

What! is not the Christian religion a 'revealed' religion, and have we not the most miraculous attestation of its truth? Just look at the answer of Christ himself to Nicodemus, 'John' iii. 2, 3.

Everything short of this would be inadequate, because we need to know not only the best text, but every text that has definite historical attestation.

But he showed me too a formal attestation concerning the genuineness of the weapon, made out for him by an obliging provincial scholar.

In the gradual prefiguring of Christ through Israel's story, they read the historic attestation of His revelation.

that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them; or at belt can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.

This is an implied attestation of Keats's poetic originality.

Some teachers of another doctrine once disputed with the S'ramanas about the right to this as a place of residence, and the latter were having the worst of the argument, when they took an oath on both sides on the condition that, if the place did indeed belong to the S'ramanas, there should be some marvellous attestation of it.

We find the devout Maries designing a laborious, chargeable, and perhaps hazardous respect, to his corpse; and accordingly it is a memorable attestation Christ gives to their piety by making them the first witnesses of his resurrection, the prime evangelists to proclaim those glad tidings, and, as a learned man speaks, apostles to the apostles.'

But, at the same time, the "witness of the Spirit," as regards our state before God, is something more, I believe, than the mere attestation to the written word.

My visits furnish me with the most plausible attestation of the facts.

As this letter was written near Lady Frances Gardiner at her desire, and attended with a postscript from her own hand, this is, in effect, a sufficient attestation how agreeable it was to those accounts which she must often have heard the colonel give of this matter.

As he did so, he said to himself, "If I am to attain to perfect wisdom and become Buddha, let there be a supernatural attestation of it."

"Of course," said the student, "Hast thou attestations of all these circumstances under the hands and seals of a thousand and one demons?"

If in books thus made venerable by the uniform attestation of successive ages, any passages shall appear unworthy of that praise which they have formerly received, let us not immediately determine, that they owed their reputation to dulness or bigotry; but suspect at least that our ancestors had some reasons for their opinions, and that our ignorance of those reasons makes us differ from them.

To all this the government has now given ample attestation, for the island has been since abandoned, and, perhaps, was kept only to quiet clamours, with an intention, not then wholly concealed, of quitting it in a short time.

To me this would seem no attestation worth having, but rather a piece of impertinent ignorance.

Well, they may, But such biased attestation Is not worth consideration, For a legal judgment shelves What they say about themselves.