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" 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. "
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 3

1824 - 278 pages
...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? A brute arrives...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,...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 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,...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 ? A brute arrives...were he to live ten 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...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 pages
...receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing, almost as soon as it is created 1 Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives...the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ton thousand more, would ba the same thing he is at present 0. Man, considered only in his present...
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The Harmony of the Law and the Gospel with Regard to the Doctrine of a ...

Thomas William Lancaster - 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...he to live ten thousand more, would " be the same thing he is at present." Nor is there any thing here which implies the necessity of a previous existence,...
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Evidences of Christianity

Joseph Addison - 1825 - 288 pages
...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 ? A brute arrives...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...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...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? A brute arrives...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...
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Popular Philosophy; Or, The Book of Nature Laid Open Upon Christian ...

George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...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 ? A brute arrives...were he to live ten 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...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1826 - 268 pages
...eternity, shall fall away into nothing, almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for ne purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection,...were he to live ten 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...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...capable of such immense perfections, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing that he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties...
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