 | Charles Buck - 1810 - 498 páginas
...nature, which a firm and unalterable experience has established, the proof against a miracle, from ihe very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be : whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according to him) is the sole foundation of the... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1811 - 522 páginas
...attested be miraculous, here arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and, if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1811 - 522 páginas
...attested be miraculous, here arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and, if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | Herbert Marsh - 1812 - 764 páginas
...true, that "a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature1." He then proceeds in the following words. "As " a firm and unalterable experience has established...the " very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argu" ment from experience can possibly be imagined." 1 n the next page he proceeds in the following... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 páginas
...nature, which a firm and unalterable experience has established, the proof against a miracle, trom the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be; whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according tu him) is the sole foundation of the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 páginas
...established these laws," this circumstance presents a " proof against miracles " which, " from the nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." Such are the sentiments of Hume, from whose Essay on Miracles the above quotation has been extracted.... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 546 páginas
...miracle being a violation of the laws of nature, which a firm and unalterable experience has established, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be: whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according to him) is the sole foundation of the... | |
 | 1815 - 586 páginas
...attested be miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience lias established these laws, the proof »gainst a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, i» as... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 páginas
...strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable that all men must die ; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended... | |
 | 1817 - 780 páginas
...yet it is wholly impossible that such an event should be made credible to me. " A miracle (he says) is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm...miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire a: any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." Our author replies : " As every man has... | |
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. 
