| Peter Bullions - English language - 1881 - 366 pages
...some additional remark or illustration, depending upon it in sense, though not in 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 ii more important." operations;... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1881 - 798 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 never pass : in a few vears he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, he would be... | |
| Christian literature - 1881 - 602 pages
...enter into the thoughts of man that the soul, which is capablo of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost ns soon as it is created? Are such abilities made for no purpose? A brute arrives at a point of perfection... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 332 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...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... | |
| Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 pages
...Immortality. — Arguments for How can it enter into the thoughts of man that the soul, which is capable 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 of which he is capable ; and were... | |
| George Crabb - English language - 1882 - 876 pages
...all at once bestows, These years with wisdom crowns, with action tho'se. I'OPE. A brute arrives at u point of perfection that he can never pass ; in a few years he has all the endowment* he is capable of. ADDISON. The word gift excludes the idea of anything acquired by exertion... | |
| George Crabb - English language - 1882 - 876 pages
...not ill at once bestows, These years with wisdom crowns, with action those. I'OPE. A brute arrives nt a point of perfection that he can never pass ; in a few years he bos all the endowment* lie ia capable of. ADDISON. The word gift excludes the idea of anything acquired... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 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 be the same thing that he is at present." 2. When a semicolon, or more than one, has preceded,... | |
| William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 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...would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul5 thus at a stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full blown,6 and incapable of... | |
| William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 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...has all the endowments he is capable of; and were ho to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul5 thus at... | |
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