 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 256 pages
...fall away into nothing, almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for ' no purpose 1 A brute arrives at a point of perfection, that he...were -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... | |
 | 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 - 1828 - 262 pages
...new improvements to all eternity , shall fall away into nothing1, almost as soon as it is created ? Are such 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 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 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... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 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...has all the endowments he is capable of, and were ho to live ten thousand more, would be tho same thing he is at present. "Were a human soul thus at... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...followed by some supplemental remark or farther illustration of the subject, the colon is used ; as, " A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, he would he the same thing that he is at present." 2. When a semicolon, or more than one, has preceded,... | |
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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. 
