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" For I own, that otherwise, there may possibly be miracles, or violations of the usual course of nature, of such a kind as to admit of proof from human testimony; though, perhaps, it will be impossible to find any such in all the records of history. "
Criterion; Or, Rules by which the True Miracles Recorded in the New ... - Page 21
by John Douglas - 1824 - 260 pages
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The Mystery of Miracles: A Scientific and Philosophical Investigation

Joseph William Reynolds - Miracles - 1881 - 482 pages
...igitur, solido quce corpore constat, Esse retema potest, cum ccetera dissolvantur." LUCRETIUS, i. 519. " Suppose all authors in all languages agree that from...of January, 1600, there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days : suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong...
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Propædia Prophetica, Or, the Use and Design of the Old Testament Examined

William Rowe Lyall - Apologetics - 1885 - 494 pages
...that otherwise therc may possibly be miracles, or violations of the usual course of nature, of such a kind as to admit of proof from human testimony, though perhaps it is impossible tofind any such in all the records of history." That is to say, that, after all, violations...
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The Denials of Rationalism: Or, Man, God, and the Bible

Isaac C. Hughes - Theological anthropology - 1891 - 470 pages
...that otherwise, there may possibly be miracles, or violations of the usual course of nature, of such a kind as to admit of proof from human testimony ; though...all authors, in all languages, agree, that from the first of January, 1600, there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days ; suppose that...
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The History of Civilisation in Scotland, Volume 4

John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1896 - 532 pages
...otherwise there may possibly be miracles, or violations of the ordinary course of nature, of such a kind as to admit of proof from human testimony ; though,...impossible to find any such in all the records of history." i9 i9 Inquiry concerning Human Understanding, sect. 10. Hume's own opinion of his main argument was...
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Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the ..., Volume 921

David Hume - Ethics - 1902 - 419 pages
...that otherwise, there may possibly be miracles, or violations of the usual course of nature, of such a kind as to admit of proof from human testimony ; though,...all authors, in all languages, agree, that, from the first of January 1600, there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days : suppose that...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Selections from A Treatise of ...

David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...that otherwise, there may possibly be miracles, or violations of the usual course of nature, of such a kind as to admit of proof from human testimony; though,...all authors, in all languages, agree, that, from the first of J anuary 1 600, there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: suppose that...
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Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, Revised as ...

Mark Hopkins - Apologetics - 1909 - 384 pages
...testimony." This single admission destroys at once the whole force of his argument. As an example, he says, " Suppose all authors, in all languages, agree that...of January, 1600, there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days ; suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong...
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Protestant Thought Before Kant

Arthur Cushman McGiffert - Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 - Theology - 1911 - 288 pages
...that otherwise there may possibly be miracles or violations of the usual course of nature of such a kind as to admit of proof from human testimony ; though,...impossible to find any such in all the records of history." Critics of Hume are quite right in saying that it is not necessarily impossible to prove a miracle,...
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Hume and the Problem of Miracles: A Solution

Michael Levine - Philosophy - 1989 - 234 pages
...that otherwise, there may possibly be miracles, or violations of the usual course of nature, of such a kind as to admit of proof from human testimony; though,...impossible to find any such in all the records of history {Enquiries, p. 127], However, even this seemingly explicit acknowledgement of the possibility of justified...
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Primary Readings in Philosophy for Understanding Theology

Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted - Philosophy - 1992 - 324 pages
...that otherwise there may possibly be miracles, or violations of the usual course of nature, of such a kind as to admit of proof from human testimony; though,...all authors, in all languages, agree that, from the first of January 1600, there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: suppose that...
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