 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1852 - 356 หน้า
...— let us consider, what, by his own account, is the strength of the proof from experience : — ' A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; — and, as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | Edward Miall - 1853 - 464 หน้า
...attested be 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 of the fact, is as complete... | |
 | sir George Ramsay (9th bart.) - 1853 - 282 หน้า
...reduced to the form of a syllogism in the first figure ; and for that very reason it is nugatory. " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | 1853 - 588 หน้า
...dissolve into thin air. We will state Mr. Hume's argument in his own words : "A miracle," saysh^ " 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 o: the fact, is as entire... | |
 | George Long - 1855 - 368 หน้า
...a reasoner to fall into such an error. In a former part of the essay he thus expresses himself: — "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1856 - 304 หน้า
...appears to me to be a witness to the power of the Gospel of a very valuable kind. ' NOTE 18. Hume says, " 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... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1856 - 384 หน้า
...strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of 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, is as entire... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 หน้า
...passage, than has ever been called forth by the wit of man before by the same number of words: — '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... | |
 | 1859 - 252 หน้า
...with it before. Aye ! even so. Here is something like it in a well known author of the last century. "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... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 424 หน้า
...philosophic as he is, does not himself fail in the very wisdom he exacts. He says, in the same chapter — " A miracle is a violation of the laws of Nature ; and, as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, * " Hume's Essays and Treatises on Various Subjects," 2nd ed., London, 1784,... | |
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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. 
