 | Charles Buck - 1831 - 1158 halaman
...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 experiencecan be : whereas pur experience of human veracity, which (according to him) 32* is the sole... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 halaman
...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...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 halaman
...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...miracle, from the very, nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 536 halaman
...established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined...that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever, derived from human testimony." Now, all this is very conclusive, provided we admit its premises. The... | |
 | John Douglas - 1832 - 270 halaman
...delusions'1; for to him it seems that all miracles are superstitious delusions. " A miracle," says he, " 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 (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1832 - 266 halaman
...delusions'1; for to him it seems that all miracles are superstitious delusions. " A miracle," says he, " 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... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1833 - 864 halaman
...summary positions on this subject advanced by Air. Hume. He says, in his Essay, vol. 3, sec. 1O, " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." As a matter of abstract philosophical consideration (for in that point of view only can the subject... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 halaman
...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...miracle, from the very, nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1833 - 450 halaman
...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,...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1833 - 594 halaman
...established these laws, the proof against a miracle — from the very nature of the fact — is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined...that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever, derived from human testimony." To this specious reasoning it may be replied, (l.) That the evidence... | |
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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. 
