| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 pages
...but it is a necessary consequence of his own arbitrary supposition. " 'Tis a miracle," says' he, " that a dead man should come to life, because that has never been observed in any age or country." Now testimony, confirmed by every proof which can tend to establish a true matter of fact, asserts... | |
| David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...though more unusual than any other, has yet been frequently observed to happen. But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life ; because that...observed in any age or country. There must, therefore, be an uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise the event would not merit that appellation;... | |
| George Campbell - Miracles - 1807 - 294 pages
...shifts the sense, and ere the reader is apprised, insinuates another. " It is a mi" racle," says he, " that a dead man should " come to life, because that...observed in any age or country. There " must therefore be an uniform experience " against every miraculous event, other" wise the event would not merit that... | |
| George Campbell - Church history - 1807 - 530 pages
...shifts the sense, and ere the reader is apprised, insinuates another. " It is a miracle," says he, " that a dead man '" should come to life, because that...observed " in any age or country. There must therefore be an uniform " experience against every miraculous event, otherwise the " event would not merit that... | |
| David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...though more unusual than any other, has yet been frequently observed to happen. But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life ; because that...observed in any age or country. There must, therefore, be an uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise the event would not merit that appellation;... | |
| Herbert Marsh - Bible - 1812 - 764 pages
...can possibly be imagined." 1 n the next page he proceeds in the following words. " 'Tis a miracle, that a dead man should come " to life, because that...observed in " any age or country. There must therefore be lf Hume's Essays, Vol. II. ?. 180. 2d ed. London, 1753. LECTURE XXX. 83 " an uniform experience against... | |
| Missions - 1853 - 840 pages
...of saying that it never happened. ' It is a miracle,' says Mr. Hume, ' that a dead man should rise to life; — because that has never been observed in any age or country.' What is this, but simply denying the fact that a dead man ever was raised to Ufa from the grave? Tho... | |
| George Campbell - Church of Scotland - 1823 - 590 pages
...shifts the sense, and, ere the reader is apprised, insinuates another. ' It is a miracle,' says he, ' that a dead man should * come to life, because that...' in any age or country. There must therefore be' ' an uniform experience against every miraculous ' event, otherwise the event would not merit that... | |
| 1824 - 602 pages
...experience can possibly be imagined." In the next page he proceeds in the following words. " 'Tis a miracle, that a dead man should come to life, because that...observed in any age or country. There must therefore be an uniform experience agaiust every miraculous event , otherwise the event would not merit the appellation.... | |
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