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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. "
The Annual Review and History of Literature - Page 166
1804
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A View of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have Appeared in ..., Volume 2

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"...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1

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,...
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A view of the principal deistical writers ... in England in the ..., Volume 1

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,...
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An enquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

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...
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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 experience...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes

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...
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The Monthly repository (and review)., Volume 12

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 any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." Our author replies : " As every man has an equal right to propose his definition, 1 beg...
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Lectures on Ecclesiastical History

George Campbell - Church history - 1807 - 530 pages
...is a viola* 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...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...
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A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious ..., Volume 2

Charles Buck - Theology - 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 Dissertation on Miracles: Containing an Examination of the Principles ...

George Campbell - Miracles - 1807 - 294 pages
...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, " js as entire, as any argument from experir * P. 179. " ence can possibly be imagined. * And if "...
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