 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 - Σελίδα 138των Charles Buck - 1810Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Mark Hopkins - 1863 - 372 σελίδες
...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." Again, Hume says, " It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony... | |
 | John Brown Paton - 1864 - 198 σελίδες
...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 pith of his entire essay on miracles is concentrated in that terse sentence... | |
 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 σελίδες
...a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle from the nature of the fact is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." But in the same essay (vol. ii. 136, Dub. 1779), he makes this confession. "... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1865 - 252 σελίδες
...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 ' no testimony is sufficient... | |
 | 1867 - 524 σελίδες
...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." I will not stop here to show that this assumption of Hume's has been proved... | |
 | 1867 - 488 σελίδες
...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 word "expeiernce," if it has any meaning, must refer to experience that... | |
 | 1867 - 820 σελίδες
...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 again: " There must, therefore, be a uniform experience against every miraculous... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1868 - 464 σελίδες
...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." — Essays, vol. iL, p. 108, ed. Phila., 1817. This, too, is the tendency of... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1869 - 364 σελίδες
...firm and unalterable experience h;ia 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." Again, Hume says, "It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony... | |
 | 1870 - 482 σελίδες
...unalterable experience, says Hume, has established the laws of nature, the proof against a miyacle from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. That* may readily be admitted, and yet it is no argument at all against the truth... | |
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