 | Edward Miall - 1861 - 296 páginas
...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 as a firm and unalterable experienee has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1861 - 786 páginas
...which it is expressed, and we think that it has been more than once refuted. " A miracle," says 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 of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | John Nash Griffin - 1862 - 354 páginas
...power. But this objection is, in truth, just the old one of Hume. This Deistical writer says * :— " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience hath established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | 1862 - 1156 páginas
...endeavours to establish." No fnch testimony can be had, therefore miracles arc not capable of proof. " 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 is as entire as any argument from experience... | |
 | William Thomson, William Thomson (Abp. of York) - 1862 - 558 páginas
...reasoning has received no substantial addition from the labours of subsequent writers on the same side: " 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... | |
 | 1863 - 534 páginas
...in their possibility, is exactly the same as when the argument was stated by Hume, as follows:— ' 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... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1863 - 372 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | David Thomas - 1863 - 750 páginas
...less reputed than Mr. Hume, wrote a book to convince the world chiefly on this point. He 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 of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell - 1863 - 904 páginas
...reasoning on the subject no substantial addition has been made by the labours of subsequent writers : " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof of a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1863 - 732 páginas
...the witnesses of miracles were not the spectators of them only: the prime witnesses * " A miracle la 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... | |
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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. 
