 | 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
...such a kind of death, 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...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 - Church history - 1807 - 530 pages
...kind of death, though " more unusual than any other, hath yet been frequenth ob" served to happen. But it is a miracle that a dead man should " come to life." Why? Not because of any inconsistency in the thing. That a body should be this hour inanimate, and... | |
 | George Campbell - Miracles - 1807 - 294 pages
...kind of death, though more unusual than " any other, hath yet been frequently ob" served to happen. But it is a miracle " that a dead man should come to life." Why ? Not because of any inconsistency in the thing. That a body should be this hour inanimate, and... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...such a kind of death, 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...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
...experience 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,...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... | |
 | Andrews Norton - Religious education - 1818 - 1164 pages
...argument, the whole point to be proved is broadly assumed in the premises. " It is a miracle," he says, " that a dead man should come to life ; because that...otherwise the event would not merit that appellation." The conclusion, if conclusion it may be called, is easily made. If a miracle has never been observed... | |
 | George Campbell - Church of Scotland - 1823 - 590 pages
...kind of death, though more unusual than any * other, hath yet been frequently observed to hap* pen. But it is a miracle that a dead man should ' come to life.' Why ? Not because of any inconsistency in the thing. That a body should be this hour inanimate, and... | |
 | 1824 - 602 pages
...from 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...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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But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed, in any age or country. 
