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. A Theological Dictionary - Էջ 138Charles Buck - 1810Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| John Leland - 1755 - 698 էջ
...efiablifhed laws, /. <?. that this is the ordinary courfe of nature] " the proof againft a miracle " from the very nature of the fact is as entire " as any argument from experience can poffibly " be imagined." He repeats this again afterward, and obfervcs, that " there niuft be an uni"... | |
| David Hume - 1760 - 314 էջ
...firm and unalterable experience has eftablifhed thefe laws^ the proof againft a miracle, from the' very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can poffibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable, that all men muft die; that lead cannot, of itfelf,... | |
| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 էջ
...unalterable experience hath established those laws, the proof against it, from the very nature C 4 of of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. It is ex-* perience alone which gives authority to human testimony; and the same... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 424 էջ
...ellablifhed, the proof againft a miracle, from the very nature of the fail, is as entire as any argument fiom experience can be ; whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according to him) is the fole foundation of the evidence of tedimony, is far from being uniform, and can therefore never pftpondcrate... | |
| 1804 - 994 էջ
...firm and unalterable experience has establisluxl 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.1 This coincidence is a very curious circumstance. I have given you the very words... | |
| Charles Buck - 1807 - 508 էջ
...nature, which a firm and unalterable experience has established, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument...admits of no exception.' This boasted and plausible (argument has with equal candour and acuteness been examined by t)r. Campbell, in his Dissertation... | |
| George Campbell - 1807 - 530 էջ
...firm and unalterable expe* rience 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-j-. And if so, it is * an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 էջ
...experience has established, the proof against a miracle, from the very natuie of the fact, is as entire аз any argument from experience can be ; whereas our...being uniform, and can therefore never preponderate aeainst that experience which admits of no exception.1' This boasted and plausible argument has with... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 էջ
...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...our experience of human veracity, which (according tu him) is the sole foundation of the evidence of testimony, is far from being uniform, and can therefore... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 էջ
...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... | |
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