John Henry Newman 
Life of Apollonius Tyanaeus [PDF ebook] 
With a Comparison Between the Miracles of Scripture and Those Elsewhere Related, as Regards Their Respective Object, Nature, and Evidence

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Miracles as unexceptionable as we have shown them to be absurd {fiffi’flfrfiff and useless, -were they plain interruptions of established laws.