 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Death - 1866 - 468 pages
...capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall into nothing almost as soon as it is created? Are...purpose? A brute arrives at a point of perfection which he can never pass. In a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to... | |
 | William Fleming - Ethics - 1867 - 450 pages
...is in a Continual Progress towards Perfection. " A brute," says Mr. Addison (Spectator, No. iii.) " arrives at a point of perfection that he can never...capable of ; and were he to live ten thousand more he would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments,... | |
 | Alfred Bryant - Future life - 1867 - 312 pages
...it enter into the thought of man, that the soul which is capable of such immense perfection, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection which he... | |
 | John William Colenso (bp. of Natal.) - 1868 - 380 pages
...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...nothing almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilties made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass in a... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 pages
...to it 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 the same thing that he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments,... | |
 | Peter Bullions - English language - 1869 - 364 pages
...some additional remark or illustration, depending upon it in sense, though not irr Syntax ; as, " The brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments of which he is capable." — " Study to acquire a habit of thinking : nothing is more important." operations... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...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...ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present,1 Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full blown,... | |
 | Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 pages
...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...purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection which he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to... | |
 | Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 pages
...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...purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection which he can never pass : 'in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to... | |
 | William Fleming - 1870 - 458 pages
...is in a Continual Progress towards Perfection, " A brute," says Mr. Addison (Spectator, No. iii.) " arrives at a point of perfection that he can never...capable of ; and were he to live ten thousand more he would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments,... | |
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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... 
