The plain fact is, that Reason-givenkeenness-mighthave guessed this also antecedently a likelihood.

The preliminary affirmation is not that miracles are impossible, but that they are antecedently incredible.

The counter-allegation is that, although miracles may be antecedently incredible, they nevertheless actually took place.

Whatever definition be given of miracles, such exceptional phenomena must at least be antecedently incredible.

Certain things are antecedently assumed, and the answer depends entirely on the truth of those assumptions.

We might all have confidently thought the latter, antecedently to experience of the fact of reproduction.

This conclusion settled Cornwallis's fate, antecedently but finally.

Let us speculate, as hitherto, antecedently, throwing our minds as it were into some angelic prior state.

First, antecedently; in this way it withdraws reason from its rectitude, and has therefore the character of evil.

We can never have a regard to the virtue of an action, unless the action be antecedently virtuous.

She had never antecedently regarded this occupation of his as any objection to having him for a husband.

Now the Good One is Priapus, and he it is who antecedently caused the production of everything that exists.

Thus it is clear that whatever God simply wills takes place; although what He wills antecedently may not take place.

Though antecedently it does not seem possible that there can be anything of the nature of private business between us.'

Similar miracles are reported long antecedently to the first promulgation of Christianity, and continued to be performed for centuries after it.

Such was the history of this man antecedently to his being placed in the situation in which I had first encountered him.