 | 1853 - 588 pàgines
...experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature o: the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined and if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever from... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pàgines
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men imist die ; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended... | |
 | George Long - 1855 - 368 pàgines
...experience has established those 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." It is obvious that the force of this argument turns entirely on the meaning which is assigned to the... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1856 - 304 pàgines
...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 .... There must, therefore, be an uniform experience against any miraculous event, otherwise the event... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pàgines
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men must die; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended in... | |
 | 1859 - 252 pàgines
...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." "The plain consequence is, that no,, testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 424 pàgines
...479. 44 THE PRESUMPTION OF A SCEPTIC. the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." * Here are two propositions : one, that what a firm and unalterable experience establishes is a law... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 564 pàgines
...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."* Here are two propositions : one, that what a firm and unalterable experience establishes is a law of... | |
 | Peter Hardeman Burnett - 1860 - 812 pàgines
...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." The language of this proposition, if taken in its strict literal sense, is stronger, perhaps, than... | |
 | 1861 - 838 pàgines
...firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very miracle, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." (Hume's " Essays," voL iL, Essay X., p. 133.) The pith of his entire Essay is concentrated in that... | |
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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. 
