 | 1815 - 586 páginas
...principle than our experience of Ihe veracity of human testimony. If the fact attested be miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof...nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience lias established these laws, the proof »gainst a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, i» as... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 546 páginas
...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 of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be: whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 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...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable that... | |
 | 1817 - 780 páginas
...yet it is wholly impossible that such an event should be made credible to me. " A miracle (he says) is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire a: any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." Our author replies : " As every man... | |
 | 1821 - 786 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be: whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according... | |
 | 1821 - 788 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 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 experi' ence has established these laws, the proof against ' a miracle, from the very nature of the... | |
 | George Campbell - 1824 - 396 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 ; '...miracle from the very nature of the ' fact, is as entire, as any argument from experience can possi' bly be imagined §. And if soi it is an undeniable... | |
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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. 
