 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pagina’s
...experience hath established those laws, the proof against it, from the very nature C 4 of of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. It is ex-* perience alone which gives authority to human testimony; and the same experience that assures... | |
 | David Hume - 1804 - 552 pagina’s
...experience has established these laws; the proof against a miracle, from the1 very nature cf the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable, that all men must die ; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 530 pagina’s
...violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unaltera" ble experience hath established these laws, the proof against " a miracle is as entire, as any...argument from experience can *' possibly be imagined')-." Again, " As an uniform experi" ence amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, " from... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 294 pagina’s
...violation of the laws of na" ture ; and as a firm and unalterable ex" perience hath established these laws, the " proof against a miracle is as entire as any...argument from experience can possibly be " imagined."* Again, " as an uniform * P. 180. " experience amounts to a proof, there is " here a direct and full... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 pagina’s
...laws," this circumstance presents a " proof against miracles " which, " from the nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." Such are the sentiments of Hume, from whose Essay on Miracles the above quotation has been extracted.... | |
 | 1821 - 788 pagina’s
...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." Many of the friends of Christianity whose writings I have consulted, acknowledge that miracles are... | |
 | George Campbell - 1823 - 590 pagina’s
...violation of the ' laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable ex' perience hath established these laws, the proof ' against a miracle is as entire as any...argument ' from experience can possibly be imagined *.' Again, ' As an uniform experience amounts to a ' proof, there is here a direct and full proof,... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 pagina’s
...against the occurrence of miracles, " the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined," and he deduces as a plain and necessary consequence, this general and important maxim ; •" that no... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 pagina’s
...against the occurrence of miracles, " the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined," and he deduces as a plain and necessary consequence, this general and important maxim ; " that no testimony... | |
 | 1824 - 602 pagina’s
...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." In the next page he proceeds in the following words. " 'Tis a miracle, that a dead man should come... | |
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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. 
