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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. "
A Theological Dictionary - Page 138
by Charles Buck - 1810
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A View of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have Appeared in ..., Volume 2

John Leland - Apologetics - 1755 - 698 pages
...efiablifhed laws, /. <?. that this is the ordinary courfe of nature] " the proof againft a miracle " from the very nature of the fact is as entire " as any argument from experience can poffibly " be imagined." He repeats this again afterward, and obfervcs, that " there niuft be an uni"...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1

David Hume - Economics - 1760 - 314 pages
...firm and unalterable experience has eftablifhed thefe laws^ the proof againft a miracle, from the' very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can poffibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable, that all men muft die; that lead cannot, of itfelf,...
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With ..., Volume 6

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...unalterable experience hath established those laws, the proof against it, from the very nature C 4 of of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. It is ex-* perience alone which gives authority to human testimony; and the same...
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Encyclopędia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 12, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 424 pages
...ellablifhed, the proof againft a miracle, from the very nature of the fail, is as entire as any argument fiom experience can be ; whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according to him) is the fole foundation of the evidence of tedimony, is far from being uniform, and can therefore never pftpondcrate...
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The Annual Review and History of Literature, Volume 2

Books - 1804 - 994 pages
...firm and unalterable experience has establisluxl 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.1 This coincidence is a very curious circumstance. I have given you the very words...
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A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious ..., Volume 2

Charles Buck - Christianity - 1807 - 508 pages
...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...admits of no exception.' This boasted and plausible (argument has with equal candour and acuteness been examined by t)r. Campbell, in his Dissertation...
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Lectures on Ecclesiastical History

George Campbell - Church history - 1807 - 530 pages
...firm and unalterable expe* rience 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-j-. And if so, it is * an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopędia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 8

John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...experience has established, the proof against a miracle, from the very natuie of the fact, is as entire аз any argument from experience can be ; whereas our...being uniform, and can therefore never preponderate aeainst that experience which admits of no exception.1' This boasted and plausible argument has with...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopędia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 8

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...our experience of human veracity, which (according tu him) is the sole foundation of the evidence of testimony, is far from being uniform, and can therefore...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 pages
...established these laws," this circumstance presents a " proof against miracles " which, " from the nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." Such are the sentiments of Hume, from whose Essay on Miracles the above quotation...
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