 | David Hume - 1760 - 314 pages
...fufpended in the air ; that fire confumes wood, and is extinguifhed by water ;. unlefs it be, that thefe events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is required a violation of thefe laws-, or in other words, a miracle to prevent them ) Nothing is efteemed a miracle if it ever... | |
 | William Adams - 1777 - 394 pages
...that fire confumes , and is extinguifhed by water— unee lefs it be, that thefe events areibifnd 'c agreeable to the laws of nature, and " there is required a violation of thefe laws, " or, in other words, a miracle, -to prevent cc them ? Nothing is efteemed a miracle, "... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 pages
...entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." ': Nothing is a miracle that happens in the common course of nature. It is no miracle that a man seemingly in goo-J health should die on a sudden, because such a kind of death has been frequently observed. But... | |
 | 1872 - 592 pages
...that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in the air; that fire consumes wood, and is extinguished by water ; unless it be, that these events are found...prevent them? Nothing is esteemed a miracle, if it ever happened in the common course of nature. It is no miracle that a man seemingly in good health should... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1874 - 536 pages
...lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended in the air ; that fire consumes wood, and is extinguished by water ; unless it be that these events are found...laws, or, in other words, a miracle, to prevent them 1 Nothing is esteemed a miracle if it ever happen in the common course of nature. It is no miracle... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1875 - 256 pages
...that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in the air; that fire consumes wood, and is extinguished by water; unless it be, that these events are found...prevent them? Nothing is esteemed a miracle, if it ever happened in the common course of nature. It is no miracle that a man seemingly in good health should... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1875 - 592 pages
...lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended in the air ; that fire consumes wood, and is extinguished by water ; unless it be that these events are found...laws, or, in other words, a miracle, to prevent them 1 Nothing is esteemed a miracle if it ever happen in the common course of nature. It is no miracle... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1879 - 600 pages
...lead caimot, of itself, remain suspended in the air ; that fire consumes wood, and is extinguished by water ; unless it be that these events are found...and there is required a violation of these laws, or, iu other words, a miracle, to prevent them ? Nothing is esteemed a miracle if it ever happen in the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 pages
...that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in the air< that fire consumes wood and is extinguished by water ; unless it be that these events are found...laws of nature, and there is required a violation of those laws, or in other words, a miracle, to prevent them?"— (IV. p. 133.) But the reply is obvious... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1881 - 482 pages
...Opponents endeavour to take off the edge of our argument by the assertion — " Nothing is accounted a. miracle if it ever happen in the common course of nature." It seems a little silly, if the foundation of everything is miraculous, to assert that the superstructure... | |
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Why is it more than probable that all men must die; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended in the air; that fire consumes wood, and is extinguished by water; unless it be that these events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is... 
