| David Hume - 1760 - 314 páginas
...prevail, but ftill with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of it3 antagoniftA MJRACLE is a violation of the laws of nature ? and as a firm and unalterable experience has eftablifhed thefe laws^ the proof againft a miracle, from the' very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
| John Leland - 1764 - 426 páginas
...all, and that the pi oof is only on the other fide. For as he there adds, " A miracle is a vio" lation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable " experience hath eftablifhed thofe laws" [he fhould have f'aid hath difcovered to us that thefe are the eftablifhed... | |
| William Adams - 1777 - 394 páginas
...this proof. His batteries are now mounted, and he begins the attack. '** A ' miratrle,M' fays .he, " is .a violation " of the laws of nature ; and, as a firm " and unalterable experience hath eftab". lifhed thefe laws, the proof againft a mi"'fcacje, from the nature of the facTy is "•'as... | |
| David Hume - 1779 - 548 páginas
...ftrorigeft muft prevail, but ftill with a diminution of jts force, in proportion to that of its antagonift. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has eftablifhed thefe laws, the proof againft a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
| Richard Shepherd - 1788 - 336 páginas
...words of a celebrated eflay, by zealous partizans ftill dealt out in detail, and held up in triumph. " A miracle is a " violation of the laws of nature :...and *' as a firm and unalterable experience ** hath eftablimed thefe laws, the proof " againft a miracle, from the very na*.* ture of the fad, is as intire,... | |
| 1789 - 754 páginas
...words of a celebrated efTay, by zealous parti/.ans llill dealt out in detail, and held up in triumph. " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience hath eilabiifhed thefe laws, the proof againft a miracle, from the very nature of the i'.ict. is as intire,... | |
| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 páginas
...circumstances are requisite to produce a full confidence in human testimony." " A miracle," continues he, " is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience hath established those laws, the proof against it, from the very nature C 4 of of the fact, is as entire... | |
| 1804 - 994 páginas
...assurance against the fact which they endeavour to establish. A miracle,' he says, • is a \ iolalion of the laws of nature ; and, as a firm and unalterable experience has establisluxl these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
| 1817 - 798 páginas
...impossible rh.it such an event should be made credible to me. " Л miracle (he says) is a viola/ion of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, . tlu proof against а mirarle, from the very nature of the fact, is as... | |
| George Campbell - 1807 - 294 páginas
...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 experience " has established these laws, the proof against ".a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, " js... | |
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