 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
 | Mark Hopkins - 1856 - 384 էջ
...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. And if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 էջ
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men must die; that lead cannot, of itself,... | |
 | 1859 - 252 էջ
...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." "The plain consequence is, that no,, testimony is sufficient to establish a... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 424 էջ
...Essays," vol. ii., Note K, p. 479. 44 THE PRESUMPTION OF A SCEPTIC. the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." * Here are two propositions : one, that what a firm and unalterable experience... | |
 | Peter Hardeman Burnett - 1860 - 812 էջ
...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." The language of this proposition, if taken in its strict literal sense, is stronger,... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 564 էջ
...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."* Here are two propositions : one, that what a firm and unalterable experience... | |
 | George Hill - 1861 - 162 էջ
...laws of nature, here is a contest of two opposite experiences. The proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be imagined ; and if so, it cannot be surmounted by a proof from testimony, because testimony rests upon... | |
 | William Thomson, William Thomson (Abp. of York) - 1862 - 558 էջ
...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."* The argument, as thus stated, was just as strong or just as weak at the day... | |
 | 1863 - 534 էջ
...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.' As we have examined and exposed the fallacy of the argument from experience... | |
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