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. Lectures on Ecclesiastical History - الصفحة 416بواسطة George Campbell - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 503عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...Variable experience amounts only to probability — invariable experience, to certainty. 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... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...consider, what, by his own account, is the strength of the proof from experience : — ' A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; — and, as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
| 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...dissolve into thin air. We will state Mr. Hume's argument in his own words : "A miracle," saysh^ " 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... | |
| Edward Miall - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...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 as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
| sir George Ramsay (9th bart.) - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 282
...the form of a syllogism in the first figure ; and for that very reason it is nugatory. " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
| George Long - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...to fall into such an error. In a former part of the essay he thus expresses himself: — "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
| Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...be a witness to the power of the Gospel of a very valuable kind. ' NOTE 18. Hume says, " 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... | |
| John Watts - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 210
...than has ever been called forth by the wit of man before by the same number of words: — '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... | |
| Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...is, does not himself fail in the very wisdom he exacts. He says, in the same chapter, — "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... | |
| William Fleming - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 698
...to the established course of nature, is taken by men to be divine."2 "A miracle," says Mr. Hume,' " 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... | |
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