 | John Leland - Apologetics - 1755 - 698 pages
...thcic are the 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"... | |
 | David Hume - Economics - 1760 - 314 pages
...of nature ? and as a 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,... | |
 | John Leland - 1764 - 426 pages
...thefe are the eftablifhed laws, /'. t. that this is the ordinary courfc of nature] " the proof againft a " miracle from the very nature of the fact is as entire as any ar" gument from experience can poffibly be imagined." He repeats this again afterward, and obferves,... | |
 | David Hume - 1768 - 540 pages
...naturej and as a 0 _. 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 poflibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable, that all men muft... | |
 | 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 experience that assures... | |
 | Books - 1804 - 994 pages
...iolalion of the laws of nature ; and, as a firm and unalterable experience has establisluxl these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...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 of both... | |
 | David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...unalterable experience has established these laws; the proof against a miracle, from the1 very nature cf the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable, that all men must die ; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended... | |
 | 1817 - 798 pages
...and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, . tlu proof against а mirarle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." Our author replies : " As every man has an equal right to propose his definition, 1 beg leave to substitute... | |
 | George Campbell - Church history - 1807 - 530 pages
...tion of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable expe* rience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle * from the very nature...as any argument ' from experience can possibly be imagined-j-. And if so, it is * an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by * any proof... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christianity - 1807 - 508 pages
...miracle being a violation of the laws of nature, which a firm and unalterable experience has established, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...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... | |
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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. 
