 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...nothing, almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection, that he can never pass : in...thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. 6. Were a human soul thus at a stand in hor accomplishments ; were her faculties to be full blown,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...nothing, almost as soon as it is created? Are such abilities made for no purpose? A brute arrives at a point of perfection, that he can never pass: in...has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he tolive ten thousand more, would be the same thine he is at present. 5. Were a human soul thus at a... | |
 | Russel Canfield - Atonement - 1827 - 302 pages
...none] almost as soon as it* is created. 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 acquirements, he is capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...perfection', that he ran never pass* : in a few years he has all the endowments h« is capable of* ; and jvere he to live ten thousand more', would be the same thing he is at present*. 6 Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments'; were her faculties to be full blown',... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...justice in any other words than his own. " A brute, says he, arrives at a point of perfection, which he can never pass. In a few years he has all the endowments...capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, he would be be the same thing he is at present. Were a human fovl thus at a stand in her accomplishments;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 262 pages
...abilities made for no purpose ? 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 more r would be the same tiling he is at present . 6. Were a human soul thus at a stand 111 her accomplishments... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 252 pages
...though it seems to me to carry a very great weight with it. 6. Were a human soul thus at a stand m her accomplishments ; were her faculties to be full...incapable of farther enlargements; I could imagine she might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state of annihilation . But can we believe... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...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 never pass. In a...stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full-blown, and incapable of farther enlargement, I would imagine it might fall away insensibly, and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...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 never pass. In a...stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full-blown, and incapable of farther enlargement, I would imagine it might fall away insensibly, and... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Future life - 1829 - 308 pages
...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...were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state... | |
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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, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. 
