 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 278 pages
...enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall...he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand iriore, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 1824 - 308 pages
...eternity, shall fall away iato nothing, almost ns soon as it is cteated ? Are suc'i ahilities made lor no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection, that he can never pass : :sa, lew years he lias all the endowments he is capnble of; and were he t» live ten thousand uiore,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1825 - 288 pages
...enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense per. fections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall...years he has all the endowments he is capable of ; and rare he to live ten thousand more, would be the ame thing he is at present. Were a human oul thus at... | |
 | Thomas William Lancaster - Bible - 1825 - 494 pages
...of the human and the brutal soul. For, to revert to the words of the same incomparable writer u, " a brute arrives at a " point of perfection that he...more, would " be the same thing he is at present." Nor is there any thing here which implies the necessity of a previous existence, but rather a presumption... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall...a point of perfection that he can never pass; in a tew years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live tea thousand more, he would... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall...away into nothing, almost as soon as it is created 1 Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection, that he can never... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...can it enter mto the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall...perfection, that he can never pass : in a few years he Ins. all the endowments be is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...crowns, with action those. POPK. When we speak of an endowment, we refer in our minds to the receiver ; ' A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...few years he has all the endowments he is capable of.1 ADDISON. When we speak of a talent (v. Intellect) we only think of its intrinsic quality or worth... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
...can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall...soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for ne purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection, that he can never pass : in a few years he has... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 224 pages
...weight with it. improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing, almos.6 HS soon as i*is created? Are such abilities made for no purpose:'...arrives at a point of perfection, that he can never past;; ina few years he has ail the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more,... | |
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Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of... 
