 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.  Lectures on Ecclesiastical History - Pàgina 416per George Campbell - 1807 - 503 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1827 - 588 pàgines
...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 experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, — from the very nature... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1829 - 236 pàgines
...proof; in that case there is proof against -proof, of which the strongest must prevail. — 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... | |
 | John Douglas - 1832 - 270 pàgines
...to superstitious 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... | |
 | John Douglas (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1832 - 266 pàgines
...to superstitious 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... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pàgines
...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 experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1832 - 270 pàgines
...entire proof; in that case there is proof against proof, of which the strongest must prevail. 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... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pàgines
...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 experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very, nature... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1833 - 864 pàgines
...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 as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1833 - 450 pàgines
...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 experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
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