 | George Hill - 1833 - 604 σελίδες
...any fact which is a violation of the laws of nature, here is a contest of two opposite experiences. The proof against a miracle, from the very nature...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... | |
 | John David Macbride - 1835 - 478 σελίδες
...miracle, however attested, can ever be rendered credible even in the lowest degree. A miracle, says he, is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm...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 Chambers - 1835 - 592 σελίδες
...contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a miracle is a violation of the In us of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience...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... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 402 σελίδες
...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. And if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever from... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 426 σελίδες
...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. And if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever from... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1836 - 520 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1836 - 480 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1836 - 324 σελίδες
...matters of fact. Variable experience amounts only to probability — invariable experience, to certainty. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and...proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the faqt, cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever from testimony, because this is variable. There is,... | |
 | Charles Babbage - 1837 - 266 σελίδες
...prophecies, and ' with the doctrines in confirmation of which miracles were ' wrought.' "* Hume contends that a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. * Boswell's Life of Johnson. Oxford, 1826. vol. iii. p. 169, " The plain consequence is (and it is... | |
 | John Leland - 1837 - 784 σελίδες
...and independent faith in testimony, we could never have acquired." Again — " A miracle," says he, " is a violation of the laws of nature, and, as a firm and unalterable experience hath established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire as any argument from experience... | |
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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. 
