 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...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...years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and wereJie'toTive ten thousand more, •would be the same thing lieisi-rtSPnT.' Were a humau thus at a... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...seems to me to carry a very great weight with it. ceiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing, almost as soon as it is created?...thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. 5. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments; were her faculties to be full blown, and... | |
 | Allen Fisk - English language - 1822 - 192 pages
...raited by single stones ; yet you see its height and spaciousness.' l A brute arrives at a point ОГ perfection, that he can never pass ¡ in a few years...endowments he is capable of; and, were he to live teu thousand moic, would be the same thing he is al present.' 2. When a semicolon, or more than one... | |
 | W. JILLARD HORT - 1822 - 156 pages
...his eyes, for ever, and drawing nearer to him .with greater degrees of resemblance. Colon. away to nothing, almost as soon as it is created ? Are such...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... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall rk, by the chimney corner ; and coujd fortel the success of his play in the theatre, from t t A brnle arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a feu- years he has all the endowments... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...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 nopurposr . ? A brute arrives at a pmnt of perfection, that he. can never pass; in a few years he has... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1822 - 246 pages
...period is complete, so as to admit of a full point, but something is added by way of illustration; as "A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a fiiw years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 438 pages
...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?...present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of farther enlargements, I could... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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...present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of farther enlargement, I could... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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...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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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... 
