| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 262 pages
...immense perfections , and of receiving new improvements to all eternity , shall fall away into nothing1, almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities...A brute arrives at a point of perfection , that he canneverpass: ina few years he has all the endowments he is capable of ; and were he to live ten thousand... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...by others who have written on this subject, though it seems to me to carry a great weight with it. A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would fee the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments, were... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...it enter into the thoughts of man, that the Bnul, which is capable of immense" perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall...A brute arrives at -a point of perfection, that he car) never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten... | |
| Joseph Guy - English language - 1829 - 170 pages
...progress of a soul towards perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving at it." And again : " A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...years, he has all the endowments he is capable of." RULE VII. In some cases, adjectives should not be separated from their substantives, even by words... | |
| Thomas Dick - Future life - 1829 - 308 pages
...man," says this elegant writer, " that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall...is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose 1 A brute arrives at a point of perfection which he can never pass. In a few years he has all the endowments... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1829 - 216 pages
...fall away into nothing, almost as soon as it is created? Are such abilities made for no purpose -f A brute arrives at a point of perfection, that he...pass; in a few years he has all the endowments he 13 capable of ; and \v ere he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at pi esent.... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 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...as soon as 'it is created ? Are such abilities made far no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection- that be can never pass; in a few years he... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...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...pass* : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capatte ofv ; and were he to live ten thousand more', would be the same thing he is at present*. .... | |
| Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1830 - 244 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...that he can never pass: in a few years he has all t.'ie endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same tiling... | |
| Thomas Dick - Future life - 1831 - 284 pages
...man," says this elegant writer, " that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall...purpose? A brute arrives at a point of perfection which he can never pass. In a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to... | |
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