 | Charles Babbage - 1837 - Страниц: 260
...miracles were ' wrought.' "* Hume contends that a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. * Boswell's Life of Johnson. Oxford, 1826. vol. iii. p. 169. " The plain consequence is (and it is... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1838 - Страниц: 244
...the laws of nature ; and as firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proofs against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact,...as any argument from experience can possibly be." a miracle, than that it should not be so subjected ; and that the probability of any law with which... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1839 - Страниц: 394
...light of day is let in. I i" A miracle," says Hume, " is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined."* But as all things have NOT continued as they were at the beginning of the creation ; as the laws of... | |
 | Henry Taylor - 1841 - Страниц: 28
...unalterable experience has established the laws [of nature], the proof against the existence of ice, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as...argument from experience can possibly be imagined :"* and, " as an uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is a direct and full proof from the nature... | |
 | James Smith - 1843 - Страниц: 728
...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...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... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 644
...unalterable experience has established (the uniformity of ) these laws, (throughout the course of nature,) the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, (that a miracle is out of the course of nature,) is as entire, as any argument from experience can... | |
 | 1858 - Страниц: 906
...distinguished historian and philosopher, says : " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." 4 And again he says : " A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 848
...evidence against evidence. " A miracle," he tells us, " is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." And again : " There must, therefore, be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1845 - Страниц: 406
...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...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... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1846 - Страниц: 530
...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...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... | |
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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. 
