 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.  Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects - Page 175by David Hume - 1760 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Douglas - 1807 - 432 pages
...or miraculous nature of the events they relate ? % P. 1^4— 5. S 17*. tt " A miracle," fays he, " is a violation " of the laws of nature, and as a firm...eftablifhed " thefe laws, the proof againft a miracle <e from the very nature of the faft, is as " entire as any argument from experience can be poffibly... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1807 - 508 pages
...violation of the laws of nature, which a firm and unalterable experience has established, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be : whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according to him) is the sole foundation of the... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 294 pages
..." 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 of the fact, " js as entire,... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 530 pages
...convinced of this, if you attend but a little to the strain of the argument. " A miracle," says he, '' is a " 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... | |
 | 1808 - 614 pages
...miraculous, here arises л contest of two opposite experience«, or proof against proof. Now a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience ha* established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is ль... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1810 - 498 pages
...nature, which a firm and unalterable experience has established, the proof against a miracle, from ihe very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be : whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according to him) is the sole foundation of the... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1811 - 522 pages
...miraculous, here 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 of the fact, is as complete... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1811 - 522 pages
...miraculous, here 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 of the fact, is as complete... | |
 | Herbert Marsh - 1812 - 764 pages
...following words. "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 argu" ment from experience can possibly be imagined." 1 n the next page he proceeds in the following... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...nature, which a firm and unalterable experience has established, the proof against a miracle, trom the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be; whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according tu him) is the sole foundation of the... | |
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