 | 1821 - 786 σελίδες
...tin' hurt of '»Ivre. Thus Л1 r. Hume, in his lissays, ;ays, " Л miracle is a violation of the 'a'« of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience...against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is us entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." Many of the friends of Christianity... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1821 - 616 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1821 - 788 σελίδες
...the idea that miracles are violations of the lavs of iiiifitrr. Thus Mr. Hume, in his Essays, says, " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a linn and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very... | |
 | 1823 - 876 σελίδες
...miraculous, here arises a contest of two opposite " experiences, or proof against proof. Now, a mi" racle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a •"...-" laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very на" ture of the fact, is as complete as any argument " from experience can possibly be imagined ;... | |
 | George Campbell - 1823 - 590 σελίδες
...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 as a firm and unalterable experi' ence has established these laws, the proof against ' a miracle, from the very nature of the... | |
 | John Douglas - 1824 - 268 σελίδες
...know, has been denied by a late very ingenious, but very sceptical author. " A miracle," says he, " is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm...fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be possibly imagined.''*—Now it is obvious, from this quotation, that our author's argument against... | |
 | George Campbell - 1824 - 396 σελίδες
...let us consider what, by his own account, is the strength of the opposite proof from experience. ' A ' miracle is a violation of the laws of nature;...miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire c as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined J.' Again, ' As an uniform experience amounts... | |
 | 1824 - 602 σελίδες
...that " a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature." He then proceeds in the following words. " As a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." In the next page he proceeds in the following words. " 'Tis a miracle, that a dead man should come... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 σελίδες
...therefore concludes that as a firm and unalterable experience is against the occurrence of miracles, " the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined," and he deduces as a plain and necessary consequence, this general and important maxim ; •" that no... | |
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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. 
