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. Lectures on Ecclesiastical History - Página 416por George Campbell - 1807 - 503 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Walter Richard Cassels - 1874 - 536 páginas
...1 David Hume, Philosophical Works, Boston and Edinburgh, 1854, iv. p. 126. continues : " 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... | |
| Frederick George Lee - 1875 - 316 páginas
...apparent, in due course, from the following, preliminary considerations : — "A miracle," writes Hume, "is a violation of the laws of Nature ; and, as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire as any... | |
| Frederick George Lee - 1875 - 322 páginas
...apparent, in due course, from the following preliminary considerations : — "A miracle," writes Hume, "is a violation of the laws of Nature ; and, as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire as any... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1875 - 256 páginas
...REALITY OF MIRACLES. We now have to consider Hume's arguments. The first is as follows : — " 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... | |
| John McClintock - 1876 - 1014 páginas
...middle of that century by the publication of Hume's celebrated essay, which teaches that " 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... | |
| Thomas COOPER (the Chartist.) - 1876 - 194 páginas
...through mere fondness for his own system of doubt — because it was his own. "A miracle," he says, "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... | |
| John Thomson (Minister of Free St. George's, Paisley.) - 1876 - 250 páginas
...opposition to miracles. The substance of Hume's argument is stated in the following 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... | |
| Walter Richard Cassels - 1879 - 628 páginas
...proportioned to the superiority."1 After elaborating this proposition, Hume continues : "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... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - 1880 - 370 páginas
...of great beauty, and accordingly they answer no purpose but to gratify the sight. [H.] 35. 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... | |
| Joseph William Reynolds - 1881 - 482 páginas
...philosophy is so ready to repeat, 'Ye shall be as gods.'" — CHRISTLIEU, Christian Belief. "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... | |
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