 | 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...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
....' Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at -a point of perfection, that he car) never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments...were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thiug he is at present 5. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments ; were her faculties... | |
 | Joseph Guy - English language - 1829 - 170 pages
...towards perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving at it." And again : " A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass; in a...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1829 - 216 pages
...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 can never 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
...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 has all the endowments he is capable of; were he to live ten thousand more, he would be the same -thing he ts at present. Were a human soul... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 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 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
...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 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 Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 622 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...present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishment*, were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of farther enlargements, I could... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1832 - 260 pages
...created ? Are such abilities made for no, purpose? A brute arrives at the point of perfection that be can never pass ; in a few years he has all the endowments h<» is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, wouhf be the same thing he is at present.... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1833 - 202 pages
...her beasts ; she hath mingledher wine ; she hath also furnished her table." — Prov. 9. COLON. at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in...thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present." — Spect. No. 111. NOTE. — This point is of little use ; the difference between the colon and semicolon... | |
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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. 
