 | 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 and speakers - 1828 - 256 pages
...into the thoughts of man, that the soul, H-hich is capable of immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away...created ? Are such abilities made for ' no purpose 1 A brute arrives at a point of perfection, that he can never pass ; in a few years he has all the... | |
 | 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 - 510 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...thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full-blown, and... | |
 | 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...thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full-blown, and... | |
 | 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
...into the thoughts of man, that the Bnul, which is capable of immense" perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away...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
...this elegant writer, " that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away...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... | |
 | Peter Bullions - English language - 1859 - 250 pages
...fol'owed by some additional remark or illustration, depending upon it "in sense, though not in syntax; as, "A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he...thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present." " Study to acquire a habit of thinking: no study is more important." 500. RULE 2. When a sentence contains... | |
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How can it 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 Fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose?... 
